Cohabitation

In America, cohabitation is on the increase. This article describes the changing nature of cohabitation, which includes the increase in older Americans who engage in the practice. This has important consequences for the traditional common law ideas of marriage. In Kenya, cohabitation laws are being relaxed. In India, the recent court decision described here attempts to deal with these new realities. Some American states have started to address the way that cohabitation impacts existing common law institutions like alimony. But several American states still have laws against cohabiting, as this unfortunate political candidate discovered recently.

From http://www.unmarried.org/housing.html

 

North Carolina's anti-cohabitation law was challenged in 2005, and the trial court's decision to overturn the law was later upheld on appeal. But several states still have such laws.