Cohabitation Agreement
What Your Cohabitation Agreement Covers
- A statement containing the purpose of the contract
- Your full names, addresses and ages with a disclosure of your financial position
and your current state of health.
- Duration - how long you want the agreement to last for
- Property - how you intend to deal with the property you owned before the relationship
and property you acquire during the relationship
- Income/expenses - whether you will pool your income into a joint account, or keep separate
accounts, whether either of you will support the other if she or he gives up work and for how
long
- Children - whether or not you plan to have any, how you want them to be educated etc
- Inheritance and Wills - what you plan to leave to each other. Bear in mind that marriage will
make void any will you already have so you'll need to make a new one after tying the knot
- Changes - what happens if either of you wants to change the contract or if you separate
- Extras - because a cohabitation contract is a relatively informal document, you can
customise it to your own requirements - and some couples include in it their plans for
holidays (who chooses where to go) and how they will go about sharing maintenance and
the housework