Cohabitation

As a rule, you are single if you live alone, and cohabiting if you live with another person.

However, the decisive factor in determining whether you are considered cohabiting is whether you have shared housekeeping with another person and thereby obtain financial and practical benefits of a certain extent. You can cohabit with someone you are not dating or married to. However, you cannot cohabit with your own children, grandchildren, siblings or parents.

Here you can watch a short film about when you are considered single and cohabiting: