CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Unmarried Cohabitors
......Agreements Between Cohabitors
.........Defenses
............Lack of Cohabitation
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Cohabitation usually necessary for enforceable palimony agreement between unmarried partners.

Agreement by married person to care for other for her lifetime, in presence of sexual relationship but in absence of cohabitation, not enforceable. Furnishing of sexual services inseparable from balance of K.

H's gift of life estate in community real property to mistress fails for lack of consent of his spouse.