LIVE IN RELATIONSHIPS

Bhumika Sharma (Querist) 30 March 2010 This query is : Resolved
A senior citizen who has not formally married married will he be eligible to take his partner's pension ?

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Raj Kumar Makkad (Expert) 30 March 2010
No. Live-in-relationship do not provide any legal right in favour of partner equivalent to wife so no question arises to claim for pension of another's service.

Sachin Bhatia (Expert) 30 March 2010
No he will not be eligible to take his partner's pension.

Shashikant V. Patil (Expert) 30 March 2010
OurLd friends are very right to say and I too of the same opinion that such alleged person do not have such right to claim.

Kiran Kumar (Expert) 30 March 2010
i agree with my friends, the long living between a male and female may create fiction of marriage, but for the purpose u ve mentioned the legal right has to be created by actual conduct.

niranjan (Expert) 30 March 2010
If his name appears in nomination,he can get.

mahendrakumar (Expert) 31 March 2010
yes, his/her name is given as nominee to receive the pension,he/she can get pension.

however,if a Legal heir challenges the same in a court of law,the surviving partner in such living in relation might loose