| There is currently no recognised legal state for cohabitees. |
| Most unmarried couples eventually decide to get married or split up, suggesting that only a minority of couples wish to stay as cohabitees for their entire lives together. |
| When I looked at the issues raised in the agreement I'm rather appalled that my husband and I didn't even discuss them when we first moved in together as cohabitees. |
| A Currently cohabitees have none of the rights available to married couples or those who have entered into a civil partnership. |
| There is still in England no legal recognition for a common-law relationship with partners or cohabitees, though in some areas such as pensions there have been concessions. |
| As cohabitees, they have no entitlements to each other's assets. |
