Questions we are asked most

No. AgreeReady is a website that helps couples prepare their own agreement. It is run by Split Right Ltd, which is not a law firm, is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or the Bar Standards Board and does not give legal advice or act for anyone. The agreement is built from what you enter and is for each of you to check, take advice on and sign. See the legal disclaimer.

No. The templates, structure and guidance were written by a family barrister with thirty years' practice, which is why the agreements look the way judges expect. Nobody reviews what you create unless you take it to a lawyer yourself, which we recommend each of you does before signing. The founder does not advise or accept instructions through this site.

Yes. Many couples use it to prepare a first draft to save their solicitors' time and cost, then each take the draft to their own adviser. If a solicitor is drafting for you, give them the draft rather than signing it yourselves.

Civil partnerships, yes: the same law applies to a pre-registration or post-registration agreement and the wording adjusts. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different law and AgreeReady does not cover them. If one of you lives or has assets abroad, take advice: an agreement that works here may not work there.

Those are for our sister site, RemedyReady, which builds separation agreements, consent orders and the court documents for a financial remedy case. AgreeReady is for couples who are together and want to agree the money side now.

On your own device, in your browser. Nothing you type into the case file is sent to us or to anyone else. Save the case file to a file on your computer if you want to keep it or move it to another device; clearing your browser's data will delete it.

No. There is no login. When you pay, the agreement is unlocked on the device you paid on and you are given a private link that unlocks it on another device. Your purchases are listed under "My documents" on the Agreements page.

An agreement stays unlocked for the period shown when you buy it and you can change it on screen as many times as you like in that time. You may download it once, so check it on screen first. Anything you download is yours to keep and edit in Word or a PDF reader.

For most couples, yes: the agreement is built from your own entries, in the form the courts expect, for each of you to check, take advice on and sign. It is not the right help on its own if there is or has been domestic abuse in your relationship (including controlling or coercive behaviour); if either of you may lack capacity; if one of you feels under pressure to sign; if the assets include a business, a trust, assets abroad or a very large estate; or if you are not sure what you should be asking for. In those cases take advice first (our Suggested lawyers and free help page lists paid and free sources). We ask you to confirm you have read this before every purchase.

You see the top of the agreement, built from your figures, so you can confirm it is working from your case file. The full agreement appears once you pay and you can still change every figure and sentence before you download it.

A Word file in a conventional legal style, with the recitals, the operative clauses, the schedules of each party's assets and the certificates of independent legal advice, so that you and your advisers can edit it. Print it and sign it as a deed, in front of a witness.

No. An agreement is for both of you, so it is built from one case file with a section for each of you and priced once. Fill it in together, or one of you fills it in and the other checks it.

No law requires it, but the courts expect it. A nuptial agreement where each party had independent advice, with full disclosure and time to consider it, is the one a court will usually hold you to; an agreement signed without advice is much easier to challenge. For a cohabitation agreement, advice on each side makes the contract far harder to unpick. The certificates for your advisers are included. See Suggested lawyers for fixed-fee advice.

Each agreement has a fixed price, shown on the Agreements page: pre-nuptial agreement £249, post-nuptial agreement £249, cohabitation agreement £169, pet-nup £49. One price covers both of you. There are no subscriptions and no hourly charges. Independent legal advice is paid separately, to the advisers you choose.

Not if you change your mind. Your agreement is unlocked on screen the moment you pay and before you pay we ask you to agree to that and to confirm that you give up the 14-day right to cancel. If there is a fault with your agreement, tell us what is wrong and we will make sure it is fixed for you; if it cannot be put right, you may be entitled to some or all of your money back. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected. See the terms and how to tell us about a fault.

Our prices are fixed and low compared with an hour of a solicitor's time. For free legal information, see Suggested lawyers and free help.

No nuptial agreement is binding on the court in England and Wales, whoever drafts it, but since Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42 a properly made one is usually followed. Ours are built around the things the court looks for: disclosure, independent advice, no pressure, time before the wedding and fairness at the time it is relied on, with certificate pages for your advisers. See Agreements and the law.

The Law Commission recommended at least 28 days before the ceremony and the courts treat an agreement signed in the last days before a wedding with suspicion. Start early: gathering the figures, taking advice on each side and agreeing the terms takes weeks, not days. If the wedding is close, sign a short post-nuptial agreement afterwards instead.

Yes, as a contract between you, enforced in the civil courts. It is the only way for an unmarried couple to fix who owns what and who pays for what, because the law gives cohabitants no claims against each other on separation. For the home, make a declaration of trust as well, which a conveyancing solicitor can prepare. See Cohabitants and the law.

It records who owns the animal, where it lives if you separate, the time it spends with each of you and who pays for food, insurance and the vet. Between unmarried partners it is a contract. On divorce the court decides who keeps a pet as property, but a clear written agreement made with disclosure and without pressure is the evidence it is most likely to act on. See Pets and the law.

Every agreement includes a review clause: on the birth of a child, a move, a large inheritance or after a fixed number of years. Come back, update the case file and build a fresh agreement, or a short post-nuptial agreement, and sign it in the same way. An agreement that has not kept pace with your lives is the one most likely to be set aside.