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 == Wives and family == 

 Version before recent changes: 
 :A peer who disclaims the peerage and his wife lose all titles, rights and privileges associated with the peerage.  

 Iainscott's version: 
 :A peer (and thier family) who disclaims the peerage lose all titles, rights and privileges associated with the peerage.  

 My version: 
 :A peer who disclaims the peerage loses all titles, rights and privileges associated with the peerage; if he is a married man, so does his wife. 

 The first version is grammatically odd, as Iain spotted. However ""family"" is not what it says in the Act (). It specifically says wife. The fact that a disclaimed peer also disclaims his subsidiary titles presumably means that his eldest son cannot use it as a courtesy title. However, I do wonder whether this means that all titles are lost by the family; for example does his mother, if circumstances otherwise permit, retain her title as dowager? Iain's version implies that she would lose the title, and I'm not convinced that the act says that.  "