How Similar Are Cohabitation and Marriage? Legal Approaches to Cohabitation across Western Europe

Population and Development Review

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 435-467

  Perelli Harris, Brienna ^a   Gassen, Nora Sánchez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHABITATION; LEGISLATION; MARRIAGE; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84866148717     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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