Moving in with your partner in India’s picturesque Himalayan state of Uttarakhand will soon require informing authorities and complying with a new law regulating “live-in” relationships.
Under the proposal, partners - the law specifies a man and a woman - must submit a live-in relationship statement to the registrar, who conducts a summary inquiry within 30 days.
If partners fail to submit the live-in relationship statement, the registrar, if prompted by a “complaint or information,” serves a notice demanding submission within 30 days.
To be sure, cohabiting unmarried couples are not entirely uncommon in India’s bigger cities as young men and women relocate for employment and defer traditional marriages.
In 2012, a Delhi court deemed live-in relationships “immoral” and dismissed them as an “infamous product of Western culture”, labelling them a mere “urban fad.”
(In Uttarakhand’s contentious proposed law, a deserted woman can seek maintenance from her live-in partner through the courts, and children born from such relationships will be deemed legitimate.)
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