[EDINVA]

The decriminalized it. AS IF that law had been enforced in decades.

[Hoodat]

The benefit of the law is that it prevented a large assortment of related cases from entering Commonwealth courts. No 'common law' property cases. No domestic disputes. A residence belonged to either the man or the woman, and only that person had rights to remain there.

Say what you want about enforcement (or lack thereof), but Virginia's cohabitation law is one thing they got right. At least until now.