Contract for Unmarried Cohabitation or Marriage
Articles of Agreement for Unmarried Cohabitation (or
Marriage) made on this..............day of
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Between
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Residing at
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Date of Birth:.................................. Place of
Birth:................................................
And....................................................................................
Residing at
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Date of Birth:...................................Place of
Birth:.................................................
The following eight articles of agreement become effective on
the date that each partner signs the bottom line of this
contract:
I. Agreement Participants
This agreement involves only the two partners who sign the
bottom line of this contract. In no way will this contract ever
involve third parties, including any church or government
powers.
II. Primary Agreement
Each partner agrees that the only obligation to
the other is to maintain a loyal commitment to:
- Honesty.
- Developing personal integrity, independence, and character
growth.
- Seeking knowledge, experiences, and objective truth through
effort and reason.
- Creating and delivering values that contribute to the growth
and well-being of each partner and the relationship.
III. Purpose
Each partner agrees that the purpose of the
cohabitation (or marriage) relationship is to increase the
objective values, enjoyment, pleasure and happiness available
from life. If this purpose is not served, then no objective
purpose for the relationship exists.
IV. Property
Each partner agrees to keep (as much as
practical) all property in clearly defined, separate ownership.
Each partner recognizes that neither has any claim on the
other's life, property, or freedom in any way except for the
mutual obligation of developing values and growth as defined in
the Primary Agreement (II).
V. Children
Each partner agrees to avoid conception and
subsequent childbirth unless each partner beforehand mutually
signs an additional contract that identifies and fixes in
specific detail who will bear the financial and caring
responsibilities for each child. In that separate
child-responsibility contract, terms must explicitly include the
fixing of full child care and financial responsibility in the
event that the cohabitation is terminated. If conception occurs
without a mutually signed child-responsibility contract, the
pregnancy will be aborted as soon as possible at the request of
either partner with abortion and medical expenses being equally
shared. Unlike this cohabitation contract, which can be
unilaterally voided, a child-responsibility contract cannot be
voided or altered in any way except by a written mutual agreement
that is signed by each partner.
VI. Termination of the Relationship
This cohabitation (or marriage) agreement may
be mutually or unilaterally terminated at any time for any reason
by notifying the other partner and by separating the property
belonging to each partner. After termination of the agreement and
separation of property, no duty or obligation (material or
emotional) will remain between either partner.
Child-responsibility contracts, however, cannot be unilaterally
altered or terminated.
Any mutually owned or disputed property shall be divided in
the following manner: On the flip of a coin, one partner shall
quote a price for the property in question. The other partner
then has the choice of either taking the property and paying that
price or of leaving the property and collecting that sum from the
partner quoting the price on the property.
Vll. Death
If this cohabitation agreement is still in effect, each
partner agrees that with the death of one partner, and after
payment of that partner's bills, debts and expenses, all
remaining property will be distributed according to the
signatured instructions below or according to the attached
inheritance agreement (Will and Testament or Trust Agreements*).
If Wills or Trusts are attached, refer to the Wills or Trusts in
the blank space below. If no Wills or Trusts are attached, each
partner should write in longhand his and her own death
instructions. In either case, each partner should cross out any
remaining space and sign on the bottom line. Death instructions
should include body disposal desires (e.g., cremation without
ceremony, cryogenic freezing with payment arrangements,
etc.).
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[* Separate inheritance agreements (Wills or Trusts) should
be used in all but the simplest agreements involving only nominal
property values.]
In the absence of any instructions or Will, all property
will pass equally to any minor dependents of the deceased. If no
minor dependents exist, all remaining property will pass to the
surviving partner.
Vlll. Reconciliation
Cohabitation (or marriage) reconciliation can be effected
simply by each partner signing a new cohabitation (or marriage)
contract.
The undersigned agree to the eight articles of the above
contract as conditions for their cohabitation (or marriage)
contract.
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