A Study Of Regulation For Unmarried Cohabitation

The phenomenon of unmarried cohabitation has existed since ancient times. But since 1960's, it has becoming in the world specially in the Western. These countries' attitude of unmarried cohabitation has experienced a long process, from the opposition to the admission. And finally, they generally started to use the law to adjust it. Since 1990's, unmarried cohabitation has become popular in China. But by the influence of the traditional morality and value orientation of the marriage law, China avoids facing the unmarried cohabitation. However,like the situation in other countries, the avoidance can't reduce it.Late years,with the development of the economy more and more people choose unmarried cohabitation as a new kind of family pattern, the attitude of our society to unmarried cohabitation become a wider and wider legal regulation, the phenomenon of unmarried cohabitation spread more rapidly, but it also has some problem, in our country, there are only a few regulations about unmarried cohabitation in law, it can not satisfy the needs of the people, so the law has to react with a response about it is profound.The paper consists of five chapter.Chapter one is preface,Introduces the background and significance of the topic.Chapter two summarizes the basic theory of unmarried cohabitation, it include the definition of unmarried cohabitation the elements of unmarried cohabitation,this thesis defined the unmarried cohabitation as a steady and long-drawn living community which is formed by unmarried man and woman who are not psychopaths and at least 18 years old. And discuss simply between unmarried cohabitation and related concepts.Chapter three is about the nowadays situation of unmarried cohabitation, the reason of the occurrence and development of unmarried cohabitation, and a discussion of feasibility and necessity of the legal regulation of unmarried cohabitation. Chapter four states the unmarried cohabitation legislation system in foreign countries, it introduces the different legal policies the between foreign countries and continent countries.Chapter five is the conception of legal regulation of unmarried cohabitation in our country. It intends to regulation the unmarried cohabitation from termination of the personal relationship and the relation of property.