William Dorich is the author of 5 books on Balkan history which he self-published. This experience led to starting his own publishing company in 1985, specializing in self and co-publishing to provide an alternative to authors who are sick of receiving rejection letters.
Since the inception of GMbooks.com he has produced and published over 120 titles including, "Witness to War: Images of the Persian Gulf War" which he produced for the Los Angeles Times--a book that won a Pulitzer. His list of clients include the Who's Who of American business.
Just 5 years ago, the U.S. Census revealed that 4.85 million couples were cohabiting, up more than 1,000% from 1960, when there were 439,000 such couples. Recent studies found that more than half of newlyweds lived together, at least briefly, before walking down the aisle. Some of those partners won’t get married and many can’t get married for various reasons. It is easy for these couples, even same-sex couples to get together, but it can be a legal disaster when they break up--as a majority of them do.
Who gets the season tickets? What personal gifts are considered separate property? What assets are created by the relationship? Who pays the taxes on income from joint assets? Who is responsible and who has rights to the children of these unions?
As early as 2002, 10% of couples were cohabiting in the United States compared to 3% in Japan and Israel. More than 17% cohabit in France and 22% in Australia.
There are many reasons that lead couples to decide to live together including wanting to test compatibility or establish financial security before marrying. Same-sex partners can avoid the higher income taxes paid by two-income married couples (in the United States), realizing little difference between the commitment to live together and the commitment to a marriage. Social Security and retirement benefits usually penalize the older couple getting married or remarried, and this weighs in the decision to live together.
Merle H. Horwitz, a Los Angeles attorney, wrote one of the first books on cohabitation in the early 1980s when living together began its upward spiral. He was ahead of the curve in understanding the legal entanglements that usually followed these relationships. His book gave couples a road map and a contract for getting together and splitting up.
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Wikipedia...under Cohabitation, scroll down to statistics and census information:
In most parts of the United States, there is no legal registration or definition of cohabitation, so demographers have developed various methods of identifying cohabitation and measuring its prevalence. Most important of these is the Census Bureau, which currently describes an "unmarried partner" as "A person age 15 years and over, who is not related to the householder, who shares living quarters, and who has a close personal relationship with the householder."[4] Before 1995, the Bureau euphemistically identified any "unrelated" opposite-sex couple living with no other adults as POSSLQs, or Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters.[5], and they still report these numbers to show historical trends. However, such measures should be taken loosely, as researchers report that cohabitation often does not have clear start and end dates, as people move in and out of each other's homes and sometimes do not agree on the definition of their living arrangement at a particular moment.[6]
In 2001, in the United States 8.2% of couples were calculated to be cohabiting.[7]
In 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau reported 4.85 million cohabiting couples, up more than 1,000 percent from 1960, when there were 439,000 such couples. A 2000 study found that more than half of newlyweds have lived together, at least briefly, before walking down the aisle.
Hope this helps?
William
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