Living together

[ewx]

Cohabiting couples 'should get rights' (and the research report referred to.)

[Poll #1028066]

Comments

[atreic.livejournal.com]

If Matthew had got the E'burgh job there would have been a period when we were married but not cohabiting.

(Interestingly, I wonder if there's a pattern between more traditionally minded people just ticking "married"... but probably not.)

[lnr]

See this is another reason why it's silly to base things on whether people are cohabiting. I suspect you'd still have joint finances of some sort even if living at opposite ends of the country though.

And I know married people don't have to be cohabiting, I just think the fact that a bunch of people all in the same situation ticking different combinations was interesting, and skewing the graph somewhat.

[david jones (from livejournal.com)]

AFAIUI cohabitation is one of the few remaining legally enforceable parts of the marriage contract.

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

In what sense - that marriage entitles you to live with someone who doesn't want you to, or that it entitles you to retrieve your spouse and make them live with you? I can't see either of those getting past ECHR...

[david jones (from livejournal.com)]

In the sense that not cohabiting is sufficient to prove that the contract has not been fulfilled and therefore grounds for divorce.