Unlike married couples, partners who cohabitate aren’t automatically afforded the same legal rights. Experts say issues like money, property, family support and retirement assets need to be part of ...

As more and more American couples choose to share the bills and a bed without a marriage license, a major question looms. In playing house and stocking up on premarital Ikea furniture are we all ...

Want to avoid divorce? For years, the standard advice has been to wait to get married before moving in together, thanks to studies showing a link between premarital cohabitation and divorce. This ...

Buying real estate with someone other than a spouse can be a costly mistake. If you are married and split up, you have rights that are addressed in the divorce process. However, if you are not married ...

In the 1970s, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population—less than half a percentage (0.2%)—lived as cohabitating romantic partners at any given time. Today, that number is about 15% in the 18-34 age ...

It’s springtime, and love is in the air—which means that lots of 20somethings are packing up their belongings and embarking on a romantic rite of passage that has become de rigueur: moving in with ...

A new study touting the “benefits” of cohabitation is based on deeply flawed ideas about human nature and fulfillment, according to a leading scholar on the social role of families. “It’s garbage in, ...

Cohabitation has become increasingly commonplace among all U.S. adults, and research suggests that most women who marry for the first time cohabit first. However, there are notable differences by ...

For first unions%2C cohabitation has increased 22 months is median duration of first cohabitation Within three years of cohabiting%2C 40%25 of women had transitioned to marriage Unmarried couples who ...

More women are choosing to live with men first without marriage and more of those relationships are lasting longer, according to a new government study that tracks the continuing climb of cohabitation ...

The question lurked toward the bottom of a six-page affidavit, part of her application to become a juvenile probation officer in Phoenix. “Are you living in open and notorious cohabitation?” it asked, ...

W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the report "Why Marriage Matters: 30 Conclusions from the Social Sciences." August ...