Attorneys Helping Unmarried Couples in Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati Create Rights through Co-Habitation Agreements
Today there are more and more unmarried couples residing together in a romantic relationship. Many times such couples do not consider what will happen should they separate. Unlike married couples, unmarried couples are unable to utilize the family court system to divide assets and debts, and determine child custody and support issues. O'Hara, Ruberg, Taylor, Sloan & Sergent can assist unmarried couples who are living together or thinking about living together create a document called a co-habitation agreement to set out what rights each person will have should the couple separate in the future.
When two people live together in a romantic relationship they often comingle money, debts, and property. Couples may also have children together. In order to prevent chaos when a co-habitating couple terminates their relationship, a couple needs to create a co-habitation agreement to protect their rights. A co-habitation agreement is similar to a pre-nuptial agreement in that it sets forth each person's responsibilities during the relationship and how assets and debts are to be divided should the relationship terminate.
Unmarried couples do not have the same legal rights as married couples. For instance, the members of the couple are not entitled to the other's estate, permitted to make medical decisions for the other, or able to collect retirement or life insurance benefits from the other. The lawyers of O'Hara, Ruberg, Taylor, Sloan & Sergent are able to assist unmarried couples with achieving these rights through estate planning documents.
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From our offices near Covington, Kentucky, located on the I-275 loop near the airport, O'Hara, Ruberg, Taylor, Sloan & Sergent represents clients in Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati.
