El concubinato romano como antecedente de las actuales parejas de hecho

Abstract

These days, there is definitely a social movement in favor of extramarital unions between persons of different or even the same gender. In our country, the different autonomous communities -and not the Government– are in charge of regulating these new partnership models alternatives to the marriage institution. To date, there are 15 Autonomous Communities that, in one way or another, have enacted differently ranked policies to regulate unmarried couples. This vast diversity of models has set up a mixed legal system that, apart from the absence of a common concept to designate such unions, contains a variety of situations, not always coincident, which difficult even more its implementation. In this paper, we attempt to demonstrate that the legal precedent of such unions, specifically in the case of heterosexual unmarried couples, is a well known figure in Roman Law: cohabitation, and once again, our Positive Law finds solutions to contemporary needs in Roman Law..