cohabitation

cohabitation
I (living together) noun abiding together, act of dwelling together, alliance, living together in sexual intimacy, lodging together, lodging together as husband and wife, occupying the same domicile, residing together, rooming together associated concepts: cohabiting in a state of adultery, fornication, illicit cohabitation, lewd and lascivious cohabitation foreign phrases:
- Nuptias non concubHus sed consensus facit — Not cohabitation but consent makes the valid marriage
II (married state) noun act of living together as husband and wife, act of pairing, bond of matrimony, conjugal bliss, conjugality, connubiality, coverture, domestication, legal relation of spouses to each other, legal union of a man and a woman, marriage, married status, matrimony, nuptial bond, nuptial tie, state of matrimony, union, vinculo matrimonii, wedded state, wedded status, wedlock associated concepts: bigamous cohabitation, cohabiting in a state of adultery, matrimonial cohabitation, polygamous cohabitation foreign phrases:
- Nuptias non concubHus sed consensus facit. — Not cohabitation but consent makes the marriage.
III index marriage (intimate relationship), marriage (wedlock), matrimony

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


cohabitation
Living together in the same residence, either as spouses or unmarried partners. Cohabitation is often a reason for termination of alimony, on the assumption that a person cohabiting with another no longer needs the support of a former spouse.
Category: Divorce & Family Law → Divorce, Child Support & Custody

Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.


cohabitation
n. The act of a man and a woman, unmarried to each other, publicly living together in an intimate relationship as if husband and wife. Although a crime in most states, it is seldom prosecuted. Where illegal, it is also called illicit cohabitation, lascivious cohabitation, and notorious cohabitation.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


cohabitation
A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


cohabitation
A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

cohabitation
n.
   living together in the same residence, generally either as husband and wife or for an extended period of time as if the parties were married. Cohabitation implies that the parties are having sexual intercourse while living together, but the definition would not apply to a casual sexual encounter. Legal disputes have arisen as to whether cohabitation would refer to same sex partners, which is important to those involved since "cohabitation" is the basis of certain rights and privileges under various laws, regulations and contracts. The findings of the courts vary on this question, but the trend is to include long-standing homosexual relationships as cohabitation.

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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