Cohabitation Agreement · Intake

Answer a few questions, we draft the rest.

Plain-English questions about you, your property and your intentions. About 20 minutes, together or separately. One fixed fee of R2,950, delivered within 5 business days.

How this works: the answers below become the schedules and clauses of your cohabitation agreement. Prefer to fill it in offline, or to answer separately and compare? Use Blank questions (PDF) below, fill it in, and send it back to us.

Your information stays on your device until you send it. Incomplete answers are fine; send what you have and follow up later.

The partners

About you both

Tell us who the agreement is between. Answer for both partners.

Are you engaged or planning to marry?

Children

Children

Both parents' duty to maintain their children exists by law and cannot be signed away. This just helps us record the practical picture.

Separate estates

What's separate: yours & mine

List what each partner owns and owes in their own name. Rough detail is fine.

Property, vehicles, investments, business interests, savings.

Property, vehicles, investments, business interests, savings.

Joint estate

What's shared: ours

Anything you own or owe together.

e.g. the house 50/50, a joint savings account.

The home

The home

Who owns the home you live in?

Money

Money & expenses

How you run things day to day.

Do you have a joint bank account?

Separation

If you separate

Deciding this now, calmly, is the whole point of the agreement.

e.g. one partner keeps the home and buys the other out.

Maintenance

Support

Should either partner support the other financially during the relationship?

Should either partner pay maintenance after separation?

Death

Death & your wills

Do you each have a valid, up-to-date will?

Interested in the discounted will add-on for each partner?

Anything else

Anything else

Review & send

Check your answers, then send them to us. We'll come back with your draft within 5 business days.

Partner 1: full names & surname: -
Partner 1: ID or passport number: -
Partner 1: email: -
Partner 1: cellphone: -
Partner 2: full names & surname: -
Partner 2: ID or passport number: -
Partner 2: email: -
Partner 2: cellphone: -
Living together since (month / year): -
Your current shared address: -
Are you engaged or planning to marry?: -
Children you have together (names & ages): -
Children from a previous relationship living with you: -
Partner 1: separate assets: -
Partner 1: separate debts: -
Partner 2: separate assets: -
Partner 2: separate debts: -
Jointly owned assets, and in what shares: -
Joint debts or accounts: -
Who owns the home you live in?: -
How is the bond or rent paid?: -
If you separate, who may stay in the home, and for how long?: -
How do you split household expenses now?: -
Do you have a joint bank account?: -
Any regular financial contribution one partner makes to the other?: -
How should property be divided if you separate?: -
Any specific arrangement?: -
How much time should each partner have to move out?: -
Should either partner support the other financially during the relationship?: -
Should either partner pay maintenance after separation?: -
Details: who, how much, how long: -
Do you each have a valid, up-to-date will?: -
What should happen to jointly owned property if one of you dies?: -
Interested in the discounted will add-on for each partner?: -
Anything else we should know about your situation or wishes?: -
POPIA consent given: No

Important: lawvero (Pty) Ltd provides document preparation services and does not provide legal advice. lawvero is not a law firm. Reserved legal work as defined in the Legal Practice Act is referred to attorneys that can assist. Your cohabitation agreement is prepared from the answers you give here; both parents' duty to maintain their children exists by law and cannot be signed away. © lawvero (Pty) Ltd 2026 · law, verified.