Fast FAQs

Wouldn't drawing up a cohabitation agreement harm our relationship?

Drawing up an agreement should not harm your relationship if you approach it in the right way. You should avoid looking at the agreement simply as a way of protecting you if the relationship breaks down, or even as a prediction that the relationship will at some point break down. Instead, you can use the preparation of drawing up the agreement to work through some of the key issues in your lives together. Handling sensitively, this process should if anything strengthen your relationship.

In some relationships, one partner has the majority of the income or assets. If the cohabitation agreement is designed solely to protect his or her financial position if they split up, the other partner may well resent it. On the other hand, an agreement which provides for some degree of financial protection for the less wealthy partner can increase that partner's sense of security and happiness with the relationship.

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