Can an unmarried couple live together?

Cohabiting is when a couple lives together before marriage (or civil partnership) or instead of marrying or entering into a civil partnership. If you're living with your partner, and you're not married or in a civil partnership, you're a cohabiting couple.



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Although cohabitating couples do have legal protection in some areas, such as under the law relating to domestic abuse, cohabitation gives no general legal status to a couple, unlike marriage and civil partnership from which many legal rights and responsibilities flow.

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What is an Unmarried Partner Relationship? According to the Immigration Rules and the EEA regulations, the term unmarried partner relationship is be defined as: Two persons living together in a relationship akin to marriage for at least two years.

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