Fewer and fewer people are interested in regularizing or making a relationship official. This is mainly due to the fact that, in current times, marriage does not carry the same weight as it used to. Therefore, the number of couples who wonder if living together entitles them to share property is also growing. If this is also your question, keep reading and find out.
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Although living together and sharing a routine and goods may sound like a marriage, within the law things are different. This is because marriage gives several guarantees that the simple verbal dating agreement does not offer, which includes the division of assets.
However, the law also offers an alternative for those who are in a continuous, public relationship, with an interest in starting a family, but without a marriage bond. This is called “stable union”, which recognizes the life of a couple of certain people, even if there is no marriage.
In these cases, there is indeed the possibility of resorting to a possible division of property, or even to several other rights similar to those of marriage. Even a couple in a stable relationship guarantees security for both partners in the most complicated cases, such as the need to receive a death pension. However, the law will require proof of status.
Dating takes a step further towards a stable union when it has some characteristics guaranteed by law. Among them, the fact that it is a public relationship with witnesses, it is durable and continuous, and also has the interest of forming a family. Without these criteria met, there is no way to prove that a relationship is a stable union, even if you share the same house for several years.
