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What is the procedure for an application under the Family Law Act 1996 for the transfer of a local authority or housing association tenancy between cohabitants?

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If cohabitants cease to cohabit and one cohabitant is entitled to occupy the dwelling house, either in their own right or jointly with the other cohabitant, by virtue of a tenancy, the court may make an order transferring the tenancy from one of them to the other under the Family Law Act 1996 (FLA 1996). The circumstances in which such an order may be made are limited to a property that was a home in which the

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