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What to include in a cohabitation agreement: Individual assets which belong to each party ? savings, investments etc. Shared assets and debts ? joint property and/or mortgages & loans. The intention of how assets and debts should be divided if the cohabiting relationship ends.

A cohabitation agreement is a legal document between unmarried couples who are living together. It sets out arrangements for finances, property and children while you're living together and if you split up, become ill or die. You can make an agreement at any time. It's good to do it before you move in together.

If someone is living with another person continuously and openly, and they are carrying on as if they are married to that person ? for example, having a joint bank account, sharing a bed, going on vacations together ? then they are cohabitating, but Georgia law holds that cohabitation may be grounds to modify alimony.

In Georgia, some couples decide to enter a cohabitation agreement. The Georgia Supreme Court has recognized cohabitation agreements. However, the agreement does not create a domestic partnership. Instead, a cohabitation agreement is a contract between the parties, much like a prenuptial agreement.

For the purposes of this law, which is commonly referred to as the live-in-lover law, the word ?cohabitation means dwelling together continuously and openly in a meretricious relationship with another person, regardless of the sex of the other person.? O.C.G.A. § 19-6-19(b).

Living together with someone is also sometimes called 'cohabitation'. A cohabiting couple is a couple that lives together in an intimate and committed relationship, who are not married to each other and not in a civil partnership. Cohabiting couples can be opposite-sex or same-sex.