Companionship Agreement/Eternity Commitment
Eternity Commitment - See Book ID 41271
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Companionship Agreement/Eternity Commitment
On this _____day of ________, 20___, ______________________________ (full name) and________________________ (full name) have agreed to enter into a Companionship Agreement and make an Eternity Commitment to one another not involving marriage.
1. This agreement sets forth our rights and obligations toward each other, which we intend to abide by, in the spirit of joy, cooperation and good faith.
2. It is NOT our intent or desire to be married or to obtain a marriage license now or in the future as defined by the laws of any state, local municipality, government, nation, sovereignty, principality, territory, county or country, or any other organization or entity that requires or recognizes the institution of marriage. We do not intend to be adjudicated under the terms of marriage or family law in the event our companionship ceases. We do not intend to be bound by the family courts, domestic relations rules, laws or regulations or any type of marital dissolution laws or tribunals. We are not married and shall not portray ourselves as being married to any third party. We may use the terms, engaged, fiancé, companion or friend to describe our relationship. Regardless of how we describe ourselves to third parties, or how we may take written title to any assets, we do not intend to create a legal marriage. Similarly, regardless of whether we live together, share expenses, or identify ourselves as cohabitants, friends, lovers, partners, or any other nomenclature, we do not intend to marry. This is a material part of this Companionship Agreement/Eternity Commitment. We hope that our relationship will last a lifetime, however, we wish to recognize that may not happen, and we do not want to be entangled in any dispute about our assets or what we intended by our relationship. This agreement is specifically designed to help us avoid being embroiled in litigation in a divorce court.
3. During our lifetime commitment we agree to be honest and faithful to each other. It is understood that the companionship and commitment will cease if either of us has intimate relations with anyone outside the relationship. In that event, either of us may give written or verbal notice to the other that the relationship has concluded and that neither party owes to the other any real or personal property, unless otherwise expressly agreed to and signed by both parties in writing, as set forth below in Paragraph 16.
[see Eternity Commitment Book published by Authorhouse
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This is the companionship agreement for the relationship model "Eternity Commitment": The 21st Century Alternative to Marriage.
Upon purchase you will receive a 7 page document which is an agreement and template for designing your relationship and financial structure for an Eternity Commitment.
Book ID for the Eternity Commitment Book is 41271. You may go to www.eternitycommitment.com for more information about the book or simply search for the name of the book or book ID to read about the book on the authorhouse website.
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About the Author
Here is our story and why I wrote the book “Eternity Commitment”. Dr. Dusty and I are lifelong companions and have an Eternity Commitment instead of marriage. I met Dusty two years ago. We had something very real in common – a shared past. We each lost most of our savings and retirement in divorces. She had to declare bankruptcy and I lost over half a million dollars. We both had non-working unmotivated spouses and were taken to the cleaners in our divorce settlements. We both decided to never marry again. It was obvious the financial structure of “marriage” had some real problems when hard-working people like us were taken advantage of by our spouses using the “system.” We discovered that we were not aberrations in the system; that many other people had experienced equally horrific divorces. As we studied the situation it became clear that current marriage laws have nothing to do with love, faith or lifelong commitment. They have everything to do with a 50/50 business partnership defined by the state in which you reside. Neither of us realized we were forming a partnership when we married. There were no advance warnings, guidebooks, not even mild cautions about the financial aspects of marriage. After comparing notes from our failed marriages it became readily apparent that what the states sanction in a marriage is not a commitment between two people, but a commingling of everything financial. Income, debt, savings and liabilities are all owned by the community of marriage. It is a business partnership without accountability. Check your state’s family law sometime. You will find no reference to the personal or faith-based lifelong commitment. If one person wants out of a marriage, the courts will grant it even if there are no reasons. We recognized that in far more cases than states would care to admit, marriage creates immoral, self-serving, parasitic behavior and ultimately greed, manipulation and divorce. Rather than preserving marriage and families, the state is actually fomenting divorce. In love, but determined not to be married again, Dusty and I designed a new relationship structure where we could share common household expenses without commingling our larger finances. We structured the financial aspects of our relationship as a joint venture, not a 50/50 partnership. I “proposed” to share eternity with her and gave her an eternity ring as a symbol of my commitment. This was the first Eternity Commitment. With finances separated there have been no conflicts over money or spending/saving philosophies or habits. Inspired by our success, I wrote a book on how to structure your own Eternity Commitment. When we finished the rough draft of book we decided to count the benefits of having an Eternity Commitment instead of marriage. We came up with a list of 50 reasons (YES -- 50 real reasons personally, professionally and financially!) to have an Eternity Commitment instead of marriage. We knew we were on to something significant. I verified my legal and financial conclusions with two attorneys and an IRS tax specialist. Rebecca Kleinman, Esq. shared our enthusiasm with the concept and designed a legal document to capture the financial structure of the Eternity Commitment. The EC is a lifelong relationship structure where you never get divorced. It is what faith-based relationships were before the states enacted family laws in the early 1900’s. The EC is the tradition of marriage under a new name because state lawmakers hijacked the original institution and made it a business/financial structure and a taxed entity. With an EC you don’t marry for money, blackmail a spouse over money, or divorce for money. Gold-digging is not part of the EC lexicon. An EC is all about love and companionship for eternity. Not money and possessions.