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cohabitants

persons living together as husband and wife, whether or not legally married.
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Similarly, if cohabitants split up, the legal mechanisms for sorting out the finances are less straightforward than the options available to spouses.
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The Bill also suggests that cohabitants have certain rights following the death of the other cohabitant and can enable a surviving cohabitant to make claims upon the death of the other.
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The rights of cohabitants are very different to those of married couples.
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This is because the law does not automatically recognise cohabitants as having the same rights as husbands, wives and civil partners.
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That added 19.7 million to the 4.2 million already known victims, and that number included 1.8 million nonapplicants who were spouses or cohabitants of applicants.
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In recent years, research and clinical experience have shifted the focus to abuse by nursing home staff against vulnerable residents, such as elderly dementia sufferers, but this study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Md., suggests that a more frequent threat to residents is aggression committed by other cohabitants.
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THE air is heavy with fear in the Bihar village of Pura, whose Mahadalit residents have been moving out by the dozen to escape the alleged tyranny of their ' upper caste' cohabitants.
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Empowering women will only bring her a level higher on the ladder so she stands on level grounds to shape and build the society along with her male cohabitants. Even once we clearly understand the core purpose of the movement I personally feel that labeling strive for gender equality as feminism should not exist as the word (not the movement) on its own is deviating from the main goal which is gender equality.
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The planet is one of three in a mini solar system, in which the cohabitants "kick each other, they perturb each other frequently," he told reporters.
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