This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina.

This collection of classic articles explores that legal interest, while at the same time locating marriage and cohabitation within a range of intimate affiliations.

New Jersey Domestic Partners is designed to help same-sex couples who may be considering domestic partnership in New Jersey, or who may already have registered, understand the extent of these newly won rights and responsibilities.This guide ...

This first-of-its-kind parenting manual covers these and other important topics, including: Custody concerns Paternity issues Adoption laws Children's rights Unmarried with Children has answers to all your questions that have gone ...

Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice.

This timely book is an excellent resource for scholars, legislators, and policymakers who are interested in the complex legalities of common law marriage.

This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives.