Families living in a patrilocal residence generally assume joint ownership of domestic sources.

Albeit many societies that practices matrilineal system often have a patrilocal residence.

They follow the rule of patrilocal residence.

Matrilocal residence may be regarded as the opposite of patrilocal residence.

While 17th-century European colonists noted patrilocal residence and a son's inheritance of chiefship from his father, those observations do not tell the whole story.

Based on distinctive pottery associated with different residences, it is likely these people had patrilocal residences.

- Matrilocal residence (compare Patrilocal residence)

The Conditions Favoring Matrilocal versus Patrilocal Residence.

They have extended families of a man, his wife or wives, pre-adolescent children and married sons (patrilocal residence) or daughters (matrilocal), and their children, in a communal house.

In social anthropology, patrilocal residence or patrilocality (also virilocal residence or virilocality) is a term referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents.

The Spanish reported that a woman resided with her husband's family, but Keegan argues that this was not patrilocal residence in the strict sense, but rather residence in the husband's uncle's household (avunculocal residence).

In the early 1960s, Bob and Yolanda, with their two small children Robert and Pamela in tow, trekked to the Sahara to undertake a second fieldwork among the Tuareg of Niger, where Bob, who was fond of paradoxes, was able to study a matrilineal society with patrilocal residence patterns.