[lbo-talk] Japan to promote gender equality in jobs

[JC Helary]

> You're right, I'm over-extending the term PACS to cover concubinage  
> (which it grew out of, and which is a centuries old legal relation  
> in France). But my impression is that concubinage is full of legal  
> regulations and protections -- less than marriage, but much closer  
> to it than what we call cohabitation in the states.  (And this  
> isn't counting things like health benefits and moving allowances,  
> which we don't get here through the state, and so which require  
> marriage, but which people get there without it.)

I don't know if this one is satisfactory. It is a legal help page  
where you have all the ways to "vivre ensemble" thouroughly explained:

http://sos-net.eu.org/famille/

Not an analysis, legal help.

Jean-Christophe