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Abstract

In the course of the last 10 years has been established within our civil law new legal figures that have changed the way of applying the law in our country. Within these figures, are the so-called common-law marriage, which has led to include within our laws new terms not previously applied, as is the cohabitant or partner. Word that in certain cases leads to the confusion of the reader at the time of going to the Law, because they do not know exactly if it refers to a mere partner, the partner of common-law union or the spouse itself. In this paper I will focus on clarifying the approach of the Law regarding the inheritance rights that it provides to the cohabitant of the deceased, with the aim of interpreting the scope of this term and avoid the lexical confusion caused by the use of this term in Ecuadorian legislation. I will show in this thesis the legal resources that cohabitant has to access at inheritance rights of the cohabitant of the deceased.