摘要:长期以来，事实婚姻在我国城乡，尤其是农村以及偏远落后的少数民族地区大量存在并有不断上升、蔓延之趋势。但对事实婚姻如何认定其法律性质，在多大程度上给予保护，一直是困扰司法实践的一个难题，并受到了立法者的高度关注。本文立足于中国现实，从现行立法入手，提出在立足登记婚姻制度的同时承认事实婚姻，对其与登记婚姻进行有所区别的保护，并最终在借鉴国外立法的基础上，从事实婚姻的各方面提出完善我国事实婚姻法律保护的具体措施。
关键词：事实婚姻；婚姻；夫妻
Abstract:For along time，China's de facto marriage in the urban and rural areas， particularly in rural and remote and backward minority areas and there are a lot of the continuous increase in the spread of the trend. But how to judge its law nature, whether to protect it have become a difficult problem which has been received the high concerns of numerous legislator. Therefore，the paper based on the realities of China from the start with the existing legislation，raised in the institution of marriage registration based on the fact that while recognizing the marriage，a registered marriage and its differentiated Protection and，ultimately，the foreign legislation on the basis of the facts in all aspects of marriage are given a system of legislative proposals.
Key words: Common Law Marriage；Marriage ；Couple
事实婚姻是我国婚姻领域里存在的一种婚姻现象。它在我国由来已久，以仪式婚作为合法婚姻的标志起源。一方面，它与我国风俗习惯和文化传统密切相关。由于婚姻习俗的影响，在普通百姓心中举行结婚仪式远比结婚登记重要，仅有登记没有婚礼的双方似乎还不算是夫妻。反而有婚礼尚未登记的双方却被人们认为是“夫妻”。而且大多数登记结婚者在登记以后，一般还是举行世俗的结合仪式以示宣告。另一方面，近几年出现了大量非婚同居的现象，同样造成事实婚姻的出现。例如：许多在城市工作的，在乡村劳作的年轻人，由于人们对两性结合重内容、轻形式，追求自由等因素，选择了婚前同居。还有许多老年人再婚时为了避免财产纠纷和儿女反对等原因，他们往往选择的是同居而不登记，大量非婚同居的现象就这样出现了。
