이혼 후 파트너십으로서의 동거와 이중주거 커플관계(LAT)

Objectives: This study was to examine literature on postdivorce partnership focused on living apart together(LAT) and suggest prospects and tasks on postdivorce partnership in Korea tasks. Method: For this study, domestic and foreign literature were reviewed especially on recent studies on living apart together(LAT). Results: Reviewed studies showed that studies on cohabitation and living apart together(LAT) were increased and prevalent in the divorced as an alternative marriage type following divorce partnership and many research have been proceeded on definition and classification and dynamics in those relationships. Especially studies are on the rise recently on LAT with importance demographically and academically among middle and older peoples. In comparison to overseas studies, very little research on partnership following divorce, especially on LAT in Korea. Conclusions: Considering increasing divorce rate rapidly in middle life in Korea, it is expected that LAT following divorce might be emerged in the divorced in Korea. Therefore it is needed to have a lot of concern in cohabitation following divorce and living apart together(LAT) as a postdivorce partnership and as an alternative type of marriage and as a social phenomenon socially and academically.