Ratgeber

Praktische Ratgeber für Paare ohne Trauschein: Eigentum, Beiträge, Verträge und Auseinandersetzung.

• Agreements

  Cohabitation agreement: what it should contain

  A cohabitation agreement is a written contract between unmarried partners that records who owns what, how shared costs are split, and what happens to the home and savings if you separate.

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• Buying a home

  Who owns what when you buy a home together

  Ownership of a shared home follows what is registered in the title deed and what you can document — not who feels they contributed most.

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• Money

  Unequal deposits — how to split ownership fairly

  When one partner puts in more equity, the fairest solution is usually a waterfall settlement: each partner gets their documented contribution back first, and the remaining growth is split by agreed shares.

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• Separation

  What happens to the home when cohabiting partners separate

  Either partner can normally be bought out or force a sale of a jointly owned home. The dispute is rarely about the right to sell — it is about the valuation and the payout.

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• Basics

  Cohabiting vs married: the key legal differences

  Marriage triggers an automatic legal framework for property, inheritance and maintenance. Cohabitation usually triggers nothing — the rights you have are the ones you wrote down.

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