Cap. 571 Art. 3De facto cohabitation.

A de facto cohabitation does not give rise to mutual legal rights and obligations between cohabitants, and for all intents and purposes of the law, does not confer legal recognition to the relationship between the couple, except after two years and limited to the following:

(a) a cohabitant shall be considered as a tenant for all intents and purposes of the law with regard to all rents of the ordinary, primary, common home that were legally constituted by any one of the cohabitants, irrespective of the date of constitution of the rent, and also with regard to any commercial rent under the Civil cohabitants once that contract expires unless, in the case of a contract that is automatically extended the owner has sent an official letter giving prior notice that the said contract is not going to be extended;

(b) a cohabitant shall be considered as the closest person to the other cohabitant for all intents and purposes of the law;

(c) a cohabitant shall have the right to take decisions relating to the medical care of the other cohabitant: Provided that this sub-article shall not apply when any one of the cohabitants has declared, in writing, that such decisions should be taken by another person.

Part III Cohabitation by means of a contract between the parties