In some provinces, you are allowed to assume your partner's last name if you are in a common-law relationship.

For Federal purposes, such as a Canadian passport, you can also assume your partner's last name if you are in a common-law relationship.

If they do the nikah but not the civil marriage, English law will treat them as being in a "common-law relationship".

Some homeless people, particularly those who live in common-law relationships or continue to use drugs, do not want to follow the rules of city-run shelters.

Another involved a common-law relationship.

However, the term encompasses more than heterosexual common-law relationships.

"I never heard the details, but I gathered they were living in some kind of common-law relationship."

He had a common-law relationship with Polish refugee Magda Cregg.

However, children born out of wedlock have lost a social stigma in many western countries where common-law relationships are becoming much more common.

A 1993 study by the disease control centers of women infected by heterosexual contact showed that nearly a quarter were married or in common-law relationships.