Cohabitation without marriage in law of the socialist countries

The article offers remarks on the legal status of marriage-like unions in those of the socialist countries which dealt with that issue in the past (the USSR) or do it at present (Yugoslavia, Hungary). The first of the latter two countries chose to equalize — to a various extent in various republics — the status of informal marriage with that of its formal counterpart; the second follows the model resembling the approach adopted in some of West European countries (eg. West Germany, France, England) consisting in introducing regulation aimed at the elimination of injustice and inequalities between the cohabitating partners resulting from hitherto existing norms, without infringing the priviledges reserved for a formal marriage. In turn, remarks concerning the law of the USSR present the regulation in force in years 1926 - 1944, where legal effects of a so-called factual marriage were identical, or close to identical, with the legal consequences of marriage concluded in a civil registry office.Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/201