The term "marital partner" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person who is legally married to someone else, and is often used in legal or official documents. Example: The company's insurance policy also covers the medical expenses of the employee's spouse and their marital partner.
But perhaps it's the wrong marital partner doing the post-divorce tour.
Despite changing attitudes, the number of people who had sex with their marital partner prior to the big day has stayed consistent at a little under half.
Effect modification by environmental factors was however evident; having a marital partner, and if unmarried having social support, significantly reduced the impact of functional disabilities on the incidence of depression.
She shared his beliefs totally, and until her death, in 1973, from cancer, was not only a marital partner but also an active partisan in almost every facet of his urban ministry.
Unlike most other cultures, Western thought assumes that a high degree of personal autonomy is desirable and that the most important emotional and personal relations are with a marital partner.
Thus social security may provide cash benefits to persons faced with sickness and disability, unemployment, crop failure, loss of the marital partner, maternity, responsibility for the care of young children, or retirement from work.
If you have only one pre-marital partner and you always use a condom, you probably won't.Against the risk of disease, a Godless degenerate might argue, must be weighed the fact that many people find sex quite enjoyable.
The law in every state requires a husband's name to go on a child's birth certificate at birth regardless of whether the husband has a genetic connection to the child (either as a result of the couple's use of reproductive technology or because his spouse became pregnant by a non-marital partner).
"The difference between France and the States is that in France the extra-marital partner lasts a long time, whereas in the States it's often a one-night stand," summarized Alain Giami, research director for a Franco-American project titled "A Comparative Study of the Couple in the Social Organization of Sexuality in France and the United States" published in the 2001 Journal of Sex Research.
For both men and women, prevalence was highest among those with a regular, non-marital partner, relative to other marital status categories.
Thirty five percent of men reported sex with a non-marital partner in 2004 compared to 33%% in 2011.
