Cohabitation investigations tend to be carried out for several reasons.
Lawyers and solicitors usually require this service to aid their client in post-divorce, maintenance, financial settlement, and child custody cases. There are various reasons why people say they are living alone, for example it could be a tenant at a property who is subletting illegally.
Maybe it’s someone claiming benefits to pay for rent in a property they are actually sharing. Or perhaps an ex-partner is lying about their living situation to maximise maintenance payments.
CSA also provide this service to private clients who require this service for the same reason.
If you suspect that your ex husband or wife is cohabiting it’s far better to act on it sooner than later.
Most Civil Court Judges will want to see evidence gathered from several visits at the cohabitee’s property, once or twice is not enough. Also the longer time left in between the cohabitation surveillance the more likely the court judge is to accept that your ex partner is cohabiting. In divorce matters we tend to carry out the cohabitation investigations over a course of 2-3 weeks.
Local Authorities often use cohabitation investigations to establish fraudulent benefit claims. Our cohabitation investigations can be used by concerned landlords and letting agents if they suspect that a tenant of theirs is living with a third party who is not on a tenancy agreement.
Professionally gathered, time stamped and dated high definition video footage will provide the evidence needed to prove or disprove an allegation, one way or another.
