A modern and widespread alternative or precursor to marriage is cohabitation. |
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The survey also found that many single old people choose cohabitation instead of marriage. |
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The artist's work engages with the productive cohabitation of birds and humans in the countryside. |
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He was compelled to endure an uncomfortable cohabitation with his political foes. |
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Children were illegitimate for any number of reasons, including rapes, seductions, adultery, failed courtships, and long-term cohabitation. |
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These marriage, divorce, and cohabitation trends have had an effect on children as well, say the authors. |
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The uneasy cohabitation of the political and the religious has posed fundamental questions about power, authority, and human suffering. |
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Despite the repeated attempts to the serene and joint cohabitation of peoples, peace is possible and right. |
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It is at this point that the idea of a joint enterprise, be it marital or based on cohabitation, becomes crucial. |
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The country is currently governed by a cohabitation arrangement in which the president and prime minister belong to rival parties. |
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Tribal life centered on a social system that put a premium on cooperation and cohabitation over conflict and competition. |
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The issue of peaceful cohabitation of the various peoples that have inhabited the region for centuries has been intensified. |
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The world environment includes the cohabitation of animals, plants, and humans. |
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Public officials have made it clear that the laws of that country should give no advantage to marriage over unmarried cohabitation. |
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After four years of cohabitation, a relationship acquires the status of common-law marriage. |
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The state refused to renew her day-care license because of old laws on the books that classify cohabitation as illegal. |
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In other countries, cohabitation is common among affluent people who have rejected conventional marriage. |
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First, we are interested in the effect of diverse forms of coupling, including the distinction between marriage and cohabitation. |
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The marital standard of living during cohabitation ought not be affected by a substantial postseparation increase in the payor's income. |
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The three years of the transition have thus been characterized by difficult cohabitation among the key moderators of the national institutions. |
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A more severe problem is caused by the kinds of relations that will never be covered in registers, for instance cohabitation. |
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This voluntary action also encourages a more harmonious cohabitation with other river users and shoreline residents. |
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For a peaceful cohabitation with neighbouring residents, a company must control its environmental noise emissions. |
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The definition of spouse provided in the Plan requires a period of cohabitation of at least two years. |
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Finally, it ensures cohabitation of small and large companies at all stages of the marketing process. |
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Part of the delay in marriage can be attributed to a larger proportion entering unions through cohabitation. |
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Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin. |
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One of the downsides of having bachelorhood thrust upon one after a prolonged stretch of cohabitation is that one's living standards deteriorate remarkably quickly. |
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Meanwhile, the age at first marriage has gone up, as have the rates of cohabitation and and out-of-wedlock child bearing. |
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The Civil Code does not consider a common-law spouse to be a legal heir, regardless of the duration of cohabitation. |
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Across town, his stout buddy, who is married to someone named Debbee, rhapsodizes about the pleasures of cohabitation. |
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We advise actual cohabitants to draw up a will, a cohabitation agreement or tontine. |
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Also, cohabitation postpones marriage and is correlated with lower marital stability. |
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A certificate of residence holds a refutable assumption of uninterrupted cohabitation and shared household. |
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It is therefore very important that if you wish to draw up a will, a cohabitation agreement or tontine, you do get advice from a notary. |
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Certain legal systems specify this minimum duration while others merely provide that the cohabitation must be of long duration. |
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Thus the evolution we should accomplish in this life, it consists in harmonizing the cohabitation of these two aspects of ourselves. |
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The increasing incidence of cohabitation outside of marriage is clearly something that carries its pluses and minuses. |
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A society that makes such cohabitation possible will be better equipped to face the new challenges brought about by globalization. |
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Marginalisation of marriage through the introduction of alternative forms of cohabitation will do great harm to society. |
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To avert the risk of abuse, unmarried partners must be in a stable relationship, backed up by evidence of cohabitation or by reliable testimony. |
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During the war in former Yugoslavia our country was cited time and again as a model of successful ethnic cohabitation. |
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Proof of cohabitation and proof that the spouses were publicly acknowledged as a couple is required. |
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This prediction is consistent with the actual rise of casual cohabitation and of sexual contacts devoid of preconditions, as well as increased divorce and serial monogamy. |
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There has been a rise in cohabitation for unmarried couples. |
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The prospect of another paralyzing cohabitation between a president and National Assembly of opposed political camps might bring about a change of heart. |
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How are patterns of cohabitation influenced by dissimilarity of species? |
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Had the patron saint of repenting harlots seduced him into some sort of cohabitation? |
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As I have pointed out, in justification of her continued cohabitation with the father, the mother, in this court, tried to minimize the domestic assaults. |
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It is this cohabitation between body and mind, between ego and divinity, this exchange, this love, which is going to give us the happiness and the possible solutions to all problems we meet. |
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Now Georgia will have to live with a strong opposition in parliament and a year of cohabitation between a president and prime minister who agree on little if anything. |
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So they can still choose a fourth cohabitation. |
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The problems that arise in this area reverberate and affect consequently the cohabitation of the Afars and the Issas in the other parts of the district but also of the country. |
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The international community has failed to prove its unshaken intention to set peaceful cohabitation processes in motion in specific areas of conflict caused by religious, political and ethnic differences. |
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In this way, premarital chastity takes on its full meaning and rules out any cohabitation, premarital relations, and other practices, such as mariage coutumier, in the process of making love grow. |
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According to opinions from social workers, one of the difficulties of cohabitation would be explained by the boy growing up and realising that his stepfather is not his biological father. |
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In Quebec, the rationale was respect for the freedom of choice for those who prefer cohabitation in order to avoid the obligations attached to marriage. |
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Generally speaking, the situation of the members of the Transitional Government formed on 30 June 2003 was one of cohabitation rather than that of a team working in harmony to bring the transition to completion. |
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In these situations, it is extremely important for common law spouses to sign a cohabitation agreement setting out, for example, how they will divide property acquired during their life together. |
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Therefore, only a cohabitation contract can lead to support payments for one of the spouses in case of a breakup or provide for some sharing of each person's assets. |
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There is evidence that D. T. and the Claimant had co-habited, however, the precise period or duration of cohabitation was not clearly established. |
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An essential requirement for unmarried cohabitation is some duration in the relationship, which varies from one legal system to another but is long enough to distinguish it from a mere relationship. |
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The dominant decline of common-law marriage contributed to the legal separation of cohabitation and marriage. |
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If, as a cohabitant, you do actually want more security, then arrange to include an 'accretion clause' or 'tontine' in your cohabitation agreement. |
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But cohabitation researchers see the outcomes a little differently. |
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To establish their rights towards each other, common law spouses have to sign a cohabitation agreement setting out the rules that will govern their union and its potential dissolution. |
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We found that differences between marriage and cohabitation tend to be small and dissipate after a honeymoon period. |
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Trial marriages seem to have been popular among the rich and powerful, and thus it has been argued that cohabitation before marriage must have been acceptable. |
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Moralists in the late 19th century such as Henry Mayhew decried the slums for their supposed high levels of cohabitation without marriage and illegitimate births. |
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The study has asserted that while both marriage and cohabitation provide benefits over being single, these reduce over time following a honeymoon period. |
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