Patrilocality is a residential pattern in which a married couple establishes their household in or very near the husband's family's residence, often living with the husband's parents or other male relatives. This practice is frequently associated with patrilineal descent systems, where kinship and inheritance are traced through the male line, as it keeps male family members and their offspring together, reinforcing family ties and the transmission of property and social status through the paternal lineage. Patrilocality can also provide support for the new couple from the husband's family and strengthen the husband's ties to his kin group. This residential pattern is one of the ways that societies organise post-marital living arrangements, with other common patterns being matrilocality (living with or near the wife's family) and neolocality (establishing an independent household).