사실혼배우자의 보호―특히 사망으로 인한 혼인해소의 경우를 중심으로―

Abstract

De facto marriage means that a couple live together with potential willing to marry. however, it is not considered legitimate marriage because they did not follow legal procedure. Namely, de facto marriage is a relationship that cannot be legally accepted due to no official registration of marriage in spite of a socially accepted marriage life by mutual agreement on the marriage. De facto marriage only did not registered but socially recognized as proper married spouses. de facto marriage is the same range of protection as legal marriage except a legal position by the submitting of a marriage registration form. It can be the claim for the property division in case of divorce, the inheritance right in case death. the aim of this paper is to search the protection of the surviving cohabitant de facto marriage in case of one cohabitants death.