Category: Committed Intimate Relationship
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Cohabitation Agreements
What is a cohabitation agreement? A cohabitation agreement is a contract you enter into with your life partner when you do not intend to marry. Who should consider a cohabitation agreement? Anyone with investment accounts, cash, inheritance, and/or real property who is living with a romantic partner, earning income and/or making investments during the relationship.…
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Committed Intimate Relationships (CIR)
The Ins & Outs of Committed Intimate Relationships Even when unmarried, when you’re getting out of a relationship in the state of Washington, you need to look at the legal possibility that you’re in a Committed Intimate Relationship (CIR). Washington courts sum up a CIR as a “stable, marital-like relationship where both parties cohabit with…
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Unmarried Couples
Breakups are brutal—even if you didn’t technically get married. That’s likely what you always told each other. That the reason you never got married was because you made a conscious decision not to. Marriage is just a piece of paper, right? Technically yes, but no matter what, now that your once love story is in…
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How to Cover Your Bases When When You’ve Chosen Cohabitation
Modern love brings us the choice and freedom not to marry. I was just reading a Pew Research Center report that states the average age of a first marriage is 27 for women and 29 for men, apparently a record high. That means a lot of people are choosing to cohabitate before marrying. Among the…