Cohabitation in United Kingdom
Definition of Cohabitation
In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Cohabitation :
Living together as husband and wife. Married persons generally have a right to expect their spouses to live with them. Unmarried people living together as husband and wife (cohabitants) do not usually have the status of a married couple (See also common-law marriage). But under the cohabitation rule the resources and requirements of an unmarried couple living together are aggregated for the purposes of claiming social security benefits under the Social Security Acts even in the absence of a sexual relationship (See income support).
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Further Reading
- Cohabitation in the Encyclopedia of Britain
- Cohabitation in the Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary
- Cohabitation in the Halsbury’s Laws of England
- Cohabitation in the Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases
- Cohabitation in the Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law
- Cohabitation in the New Oxford Companion to Law
- Cohabitation in the Words and Phrases Legally Defined
- Cohabitation in the Oxford Dictionary of Law
Definition of Cohabitation
The word originates from the latin cohabitare meaning dwell together.
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