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Family

Living together, not married: where you stand.

Half the country believes common law marriage exists. It does not, and it never has in Ireland. Living together for twenty years creates none of the automatic rights of marriage. What the law gives cohabiting couples instead is narrower, slower and easy to miss, so here it is straight.

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