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More commonly, cohabitation agreements are used by couples to acknowledge the ownership details of the property and the respective financial or maintenance responsibilities of each partner. They are particularly important for unmarried couples who have children.

Couples who cohabit before marriage, have a lower chance of break-up in the first year of marriage, compared to partners who did not cohabit before marriage. However, in the long-term risk of divorce increases for premarital cohabitors.

A cohabitation agreement is a contract between two people who are in relationship and live together but are not married. Good cohabitation agreements are (ideally) crafted early on, and deal with issues involving property, debts, inheritances, other estate planning considerations and health care decisions.

More than half of those who were cohabiting cited either their partners' finances or their own as a reason they were not yet engaged. That's more than those who said they weren't ready, their partner wasn't ready, their career wasn't far enough along or they were not sure if their partner was The One.

Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married, usually couples, live together. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis.

Cohabiting is when a couple lives together before marriage (or civil partnership) or instead of marrying or entering into a civil partnership. If you're living with your partner, and you're not married or in a civil partnership, you're a cohabiting couple.