June the 5^th  came into force the law n. 76, May 20, 2016, the law on civil unions and the de facto relationships.

The most important innovation of this law is made up of the so-called cohabitation contracts, which allow “de facto” cohabitants, who have registered in the civil register their state of stable cohabitation (heterosexual or homosexual), to "regulate their economic affairs "(art. 1, par. 50).


Thanks to these contracts, cohabitants can actually regulate the economic aspects of their relationship freely (these contracts are not mandatory), because their business are regulable in the absence of a cohabitation agreement.

Cohabitation contracts are useful to regulate many issues concerning property affair of unmarried partners, and thanks to these contracts  residency can be estabilished, to prevent later problems may arise relating to the identification of the couple's place of residence: they can not regulate, however, personal matters, such as sexual life of the partners.