Cohabitation rates, rights, and responsibilities

Relationship formation becomes more varied across the globe

(Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, (lived) together as the first unmarried couple in No 10. Downing Street. But while cohabitation is celebrated in some parts of the world, it is not in many other parts.

A Zimbabwean woman has just won a $650,000 (R10 Million) award from the estate of her late partner after a long process in the country’s Constitutional Court. The only problem was that she cohabited with her partner instead of marrying him. The court finally ruled that such relationships are a legitimate family structure, and deserved respect and recognition under the law.

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