[cotton]

I have elderly friends man and women who just had a commitment ceremony at a church. They did not want the legal financial laws to come into effect. ???? They now live together. What will happen to them?????

[Alberta's Child]

If they're elderly it may not matter much. Do they have agreements in place to document the ownership of the assets that each of them had before their "commitment ceremony"?

Without a marriage license, the disposition of assets after one or both of them dies will be done under the terms of any contracts they have, or under court oversight (if they have none).