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I am gay. Can I make an agreement with my gay partner that gives legal expression to our desire to live together as a couple ,share our income, and bear financial responsibility for each other?

Yes, you can have a tailor-made agreement drawn up that covers your lifestyle and wishes, and your rights and obligations vis-a-vis one another, giving them full expression in legal language, and full and binding value legally. For example, you can decide what is to be done with your incomes, whether to open one joint account, into which both of you deposit your salary, or retain separate accounts as well as one joint account , and transfer part of your salaries into it, to cover shared living expenses and savings for the future. You can also decide what is to be done in the event of you splitting up in the future etc.

Such an agreement should be authorised at the family court, to give it full legal value.