Cohabitation agreement for unmarried partners (Cyprus)
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A private agreement between two partners living together in Cyprus without marriage or a civil partnership: the shared home and who has a right to it, how expenses are split, what belongs to each and what is shared, and how they settle up if they separate. The law does not regulate informal cohabitation, so the agreement records what would otherwise have to be proved. It is not a civil partnership: that is entered into under Law 184(I)/2015, by any couple, and has the effects of marriage except adoption.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- City
- Date
- First party
- First party's identity card or ARC number
- First party's address
- Second party
- Second party's identity card or ARC number
- Second party's address
- Start date
- Address of the property
- Legal title to the home (e.g. ownership, lease)
- Time to move out after separating
- How living costs are shared
- Each partner's personal property
- Property acquired together, and the shares in it
- Time to settle up after separating
- Other terms
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Common questions
- What is the difference between a cohabitation agreement and a civil partnership in Cyprus?
- A civil partnership under Law 184(I)/2015 is open to any couple, is entered into before the authority the law names, and has the effects of marriage except adoption: inheritance rights and the claim to a share in the increase of the other's property under Law 232/1991. A cohabitation agreement is a plain contract under the Contract Law (Cap. 149) and settles only what it says: the home, expenses and property. A couple wanting the effects of marriage without marrying chooses a civil partnership.
- Does an unmarried partner in Cyprus have rights in the other partner's property?
- The law does not regulate informal cohabitation, and partners who are neither married nor in a civil partnership have no automatic rights in each other's property. The one-third presumption of Law 232/1991 applies to spouses and civil partners, not to them. A claim can rest on the principles of equity, but it is hard and costly. The agreement records from the start what belongs to each, what is shared, and how money one partner spends on the other's property is paid back.
- Do unmarried partners in Cyprus inherit from each other?
- Not without a will. Intestacy calls the spouse or civil partner and the relatives, not a partner in an informal relationship, and a cohabitation agreement does not change that. A partner who wants to leave something to the other makes a will, which in Cyprus has a limit: someone leaving children can leave only a quarter of the estate freely, and someone leaving a spouse or parent but no children, a half.
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