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An Affidavit of Cohabitation is a statement under oath by a man and woman saying they have lived together as husband and wife for a period of at least 5 years without any legal impediment to marry each other.

A cohabitation agreement is a legal document between unmarried couples who are living together. It sets out arrangements for finances, property and children while you're living together and if you split up, become ill or die. You can make an agreement at any time. It's good to do it before you move in together.

A ?cohabitation clause? typically will provide that spousal support payments will stop if the receiving spouse starts to cohabitate with a new person after the entry of the divorce decree.

Section 20-3-13(B)(6) of South Carolina's Code of Laws reads as follows: For purposes of this subsection and unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the parties, 'continued cohabitation' means the supported spouse resides with another person in a romantic relationship for a period of ninety or more consecutive days.

Unmarried people living together have no rights to the other person's property unless they have entered into a cohabitation agreement, which can be either written or implied. The built-in protections that a spouse has as a married person do not exist when two people live together.

In fact, no South Carolina law says that a certain number of years of cohabitation creates a common-law marriage. A couple could live together for decades without creating a common law marriage, or they could create a common law marriage based on one evening of living together.