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The article discusses official personal name changes in California with regards to changing a name due to marriage, divorce, or custody. It states that a person is free to choose whether he or she will change their name due to marriage or divorce and that there is no law requiring a woman to assume her husband's last name after the wedding. Same-sex couples, registered domestic partners reportedly have the same rights with married people when it comes to name changes.

This chapter offers legal guidance and suggestions for unmarried couples who decide to live together. It outlines the rules when making an agreement to keep property separate, agreement for a joint purchase, agreement to share property, and declaration of legal name change. Tips and signing instructions are offered for using the mentioned forms.

The article discusses the personal issues associated with making living trusts. It describes the emotional aspects of leaving equal amounts of property to children. The problems that could be experienced by people who marry more than once are discussed. The article also explains the issues that single people, unmarried couples and same-sex couples should address when making living trusts.

The article offers a guide for house buyers in California to taking title or documented legal ownership of the property before escrow closes on the house. It discusses how an unmarried person can take title. Some of the ways by which two or more unmarried people who purchase a house together can take title including joint tenancy, tenancy in common, partnership or as community property if the purchasers are registered as domestic partners.

Chapter 8 of the book "Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples," by Denis Clifford, Frederick Hertz, and Emily Doskow is presented. It explores the significance of legal contracts to living together lesbian and gay couples. It mentions several types of living together contracts such as contracts for long-term couples, joint projects, and jointly acquired items. It offers suggestions to be included in contracts like cooling off clause, property and finances, and arbitration and mediation clause.

Chapter 2 of the book "California Tenants' Rights," by Janet Portman and David Brown is presented. It discusses the legal aspects of sharing a rented housing by unmarried people in California. It offers information on the legal obligations of partners in the rented housing towards the landlord and towards one another. Roommates and move-in partners have equal liabilities towards all the provisions of the rental or lease agreement with the landlord.

Chapter 2 of the book "2008 Family Law Update" is presented. It explores a "living together agreement" or "domestic partnership agreement" for cohabitants living together without the benefit of marriage. Contracts defining the rights, duties, obligations, responsibilities, and other parameters of the relationship enable unmarried couples to enter into legal relationships. A mutual understanding regarding major financial and property-related issues is guaranteed by a cohabitation agreement between parties.

Chapter three of the book "Handbook of Population" is presented. This chapter focuses on several theoretical issues in the studies of marriage and family. It examines marriage as a social institution, the role of marriage in the family and the contemporary variations in family forms and functions. It assesses the ways that families have changed and addresses some of the alternatives to the married couple family including gay, lesbian and cohabiting couples.

This chapter offers information on the people of Barbados and their way of life. It is difficult to upset Bajans, who have a well-deserved reputation for being very down-to-earth people. Many couples live together without marrying, and more than three-quarters of the babies in Barbados are born out of wedlock. Public education is free in Barbados, and children are required to go to school between the ages of five and 16. Many of the beliefs and superstitions on Barbados have African roots.

A chapter of the book "Sex Sells! The Media's Journey From Repression to Obsession," by Rodger Streitmatter is presented. It explores the impact of the television (TV) program "Three's Company" on men and women in the U.S. in terms of sexuality. It mentions how the TV program caused many Americans to rethink the prospect of single men and women living together. It offers information on the cast of the program including John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt, as well as its scenes.

Chapter 3 of the book "Future Families Project: A Survey of Canadian Hopes and Dreams" is presented. It explores the survey relating to the value of Canadian marriage. It highlights the findings of the survey on the importance and attitude of marriage, advantages and disadvantages, and the comparison of marriage and cohabitation.

This article focuses on changes in cohabitation in the U.S. since 1970. Despite greater acceptance of cohabitation, the public and researchers still disagree about whether cohabiting unions harm individuals and threaten the larger social order. Census data shows that the start of the dramatic rise in the rate of increase in cohabiting couples in the U.S. was around 1970. There are race-ethnic differences in cohabitation as well. Persons with less education and more uncertain economic prospects are more likely to cohabit than to marry. Cohabiting unions do not last long before the couple marries or ends the relationship. Cohabitation is also becoming a more common setting for rearing and even bearing children. Men's and women's obligations in marriage are shifting to an arrangement in which both spouses help fulfill their family's economic needs. Young women and men with liberal attitudes about gender roles are more likely to cohabit than to marry. Women who bear a child outside marriage are increasingly likely to bear all of their children outside marriage.

Chapter 8 of the book "Do Your Own California Adoption," is presented. It offers information related to legal procedure of child adoption by domestic partners in California. It states that one has to get registered as a domestic partner with the parent of the child, whom one wants to adopt and also discusses issues when the child is conceived using a sperm donor. Also discussed are legal issues involved when the child is conceived using a surrogate.

The article focuses on domestic groups. One of the basic and central facts about any kinship system is the characteristic composition of the domestic group--that is, the group of relatives who normally share a common residence. There is clearly a widespread assumption that the characteristic and natural domestic group in Western society is the elementary family of husband, wife and dependent children. This is evident in the size and shape of houses built both by public authorities and by private builders, and also in the welter of public statements by priests and politicians and judges on the perennial theme of the home as the foundation of society. It emerges also in the contemporary usage of the term family. People are of course familiar with other household forms--with elderly people living alone or with young married couples without children, or with a married child and spouse living with one or other set of parents after marriage--but there is no doubt that they would expect to find in any community in Great Britain the vast majority of homes containing the basic biological unit of parents and offspring. This is the expected household composition.

This article focuses on financial issues concerning divorce in Great Britain. Perhaps partly because a high proportion of marriages break down, many couples postpone the decision to marry, and live together instead. An increasing number of children are born to cohabiting couples and a large body of case law has developed in relation to financial issues which arise on the breakdown of cohabiting arrangements. In 1991 the Law Society asked the government for legislation to recognise marriage contracts as legally enforceable provided the parties had independent legal advice before signing them, and provided they had amended them when significant changes had occurred, for example if one partner had become disabled or had inherited a large sum of money. In the present state of the law any such financial provision agreed in the marriage contract is one of the factors the court takes into account together with all the other factors it is obliged to consider when hearing a financial application by a spouse. Those factors are set out in the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.

Assesses violence by both men and women in dating, cohabiting and marital relationships. Assault rates and assault types by marital status; Marital status and severity of assault; Theories explaining marital status differences in violence.

The article discusses various kinds of prostitution in the United States. In the old-line prostitute, there is the five to fifteen dollar woman who makes no bones about what she is: on the street, or in a house, or provided by bell boy or taxi driver. In the upper-class prostitution, there is also the prostitution and the semi-prostitution indulged in by rich men and moneyed youth, by busy millionaires as well as playboys and men of executive standing. Along with the established upper-class prostitutes and mistresses of American plutocracy--with which it overlaps --this newer girl system involves elegant women with light morals and respectable businessmen with heavy expense accounts. Like many other people today, the expense-account girl lives on the hope that things will be different next week, next month, next year. For she is not so likely to be a success as a would-be model or an aspiring bit-player. Expense-account vice does not rest merely upon the passions of men and the weaknesses of women. Back of it are certain long-run trends in the quality of public and private life in America. All this public eroticism which floods the mass media in America is at once a reflection and a contributing cause of drastic changes in private morality: there is no doubt but that the value of chastity in the unmarried female has declined, and that the respectability of the experienced woman has gone up.

Chapter X of the book, book II, "Growth of the Soil," by Knut Hamsun is presented. It narrates the confession to each other of the couple Barbro and Axel, which she became better after the confession. They have agreed several things as they have lying all the night which they had talked all the previous bad things happened between them. Moreover, a wedding ceremony was arranged before saint Olaf's day for which both of them have agreed.

Chapter XXIII of the book "The Fortunes of Nigel" is presented. It provides information on Captain Colepepper, known as Peppercull, who rendered more peculiar by a patch covering his left eye and a part of the cheek. During the special occasion, Master Nigel Grahame acquainted with Master Nigel Green, Peter Pillory, and Mistress Martha Trapbois.

An example of a legal form stating agreement of unmarried couples to share property is presented.

A legal form stating agreement to keep the properties of unmarried couples separate is presented.

A form showing a living together agreement in same-sex relationship is presented which appears in the book "Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples." The required information includes names of the couple, date on which the contract is signed, and attachment of individual owned property.

A form related to a living together agreement on sharing most property is presented.

A form related to living together agreement is presented.

A legal form stating agreement for a joint purchase by unmarried couples is presented.

A legal notice for use to demand or request termination of joint account of unmarried couples is presented.

A form of a notice that is to be given by the person who wants to adopt a child, to the child's alleged father is presented. In the form, the adoptive father notifies he is the spouse or domestic partner of the child's parent and want's to adopt the child as his stepchild. The form requires the name and address of the alleged father, name of the spouse or domestic partner, and the name of child.

A checklist related to child adoption, in case when the person interested in adopting a child wants to terminate the absent parent's rights, is presented. The checklist presents various issues that should be considered in the entire process of adoption. It includes collecting documents to support the adoption request, obtaining informal consent of spouse or domestic partner, and determining whether the child was born out of wedlock.

A checklist related to an uncontested child adoption is presented. The checklist presents various tasks that should be followed in the entire process of adoption. It includes preparing for the adoption request, cooperating with the social worker who writes the adoption assessment report, and attending the adoption hearing with the spouse or domestic partner. Also to be mentioned are the dates on which the tasks were completed.

A checklist related to the contested adoption, in case when the absent parent has willfully failed to meet parental responsibilities, is presented. The checklist provides information for the person who wants to adopt the child, related to the entire procedure of adoption. The checklist includes collecting documents to support the adoption request and the allegation of wilful failure, obtaining informal consent of spouse or domestic partner, and preparing an filing the abandonment petition.

A checklist related to the contested adoption of an abandoned child is presented. The checklist provides information for the person who wants to adopt the child, related to the entire procedure of adoption of the abandoned child. The checklist includes collecting documents to support the adoption request, obtaining informal consent of spouse or domestic partner, and preparing an filing the abandonment petition.

Chapter 5 of the short story "The Hangman's Daughter," from the book "Daisy Ashford: Her Book," by Daisy Ashford and Angela Ashford is presented. Helen was preparing for the coming of Gladys Lincarrol. Gladys came at 4 o'clock in the afternoon together with her future husband, James Palsey. Gladys was described as a tall, slim lady with blue eyes. James is also tall with curly black hair and green eyes. Helen took the two for a walk around the village while Mr. Winston settled and started reading the "Star."

A form showing an affidavit of the death of domestic partner is presented which appears in the book "How to Probate an Estate in California." The required information includes the name of the affiant, the name of the decedent, and the date of death of the affiant.

The short story "Mistress Mikaver's Tea Party" is presented.