Can an unmarried couple live together?
Can an unmarried couple live together? Cohabiting is when a couple lives together before marriage (or civil partnership) or instead of marrying or entering into a civil partnership. If you're living with your partner, and you're not married or in a civil partnership, you're a cohabiting couple.
Is living together legal in UK?
Although cohabitating couples do have legal protection in some areas, such as under the law relating to domestic abuse, cohabitation gives no general legal status to a couple, unlike marriage and civil partnership from which many legal rights and responsibilities flow.
What is an unmarried partner in UK?
What is an Unmarried Partner Relationship? According to the Immigration Rules and the EEA regulations, the term unmarried partner relationship is be defined as: Two persons living together in a relationship akin to marriage for at least two years.