The Final Review Checklist Before You Both Sign
Before you sign your casual agreement, run through this comprehensive checklist to catch gaps, imbalances, and missing protections.
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Clear boundaries make better arrangements
Practical guides for casual agreements, privacy clauses, financial boundaries, and setting expectations — without the legalese.
Topic Guides
Deep dives into the key areas of casual agreements and arrangement boundaries.
Privacy & Confidentiality
How to protect personal information, set disclosure boundaries, and maintain privacy in informal relationships and arrangements.
Setting Expectations
How to define clear expectations upfront in casual relationships and informal arrangements so both parties stay aligned and conflicts stay rare.
Financial Boundaries
How to handle money, gifts, and financial support in casual relationships and informal arrangements without awkwardness or conflict.
Ending Arrangements
How to end a casual agreement or informal relationship with clarity, respect, and minimal fallout for both parties.
Enforceability Basics
What makes a casual agreement legally enforceable (or not), and why written terms still matter even when they aren't binding contracts.
Communication Boundaries
How to set and maintain healthy communication boundaries in casual relationships, including frequency, channels, tone, and what happens when lines get crossed.
Common Pitfalls
The most frequent mistakes people make in casual agreements and informal arrangements — and how to avoid every one of them.
Power Dynamics & Fairness
Understanding how power imbalances affect casual arrangements, how to recognize unhealthy dynamics, and how to build agreements that are genuinely fair to both parties.
Types of Agreements
An overview of the different kinds of casual agreements people make — from FWB arrangements and sugar relationships to roommate deals and creative collaborations.
Writing Your Agreement
A practical, step-by-step guide to writing a casual agreement that's clear, fair, and actually useful — without sounding like a lawyer or making things awkward.
Latest Articles
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Should your casual agreement be a shared Google Doc, a signed PDF, or a handwritten document? Here's how the format affects privacy, access, and trust.
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How to Handle Amendments and Updates to Your Agreement
Arrangements change. Here's how to update your agreement without blowing up the whole thing—a practical guide to amendments.
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Plain Language vs. Legal Language: Which to Use in Your Agreement
Should your casual agreement sound like a contract or a conversation? Here's when each approach works—and why plain language usually wins.
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Casual Business Partnerships: When Friends Go Into Business
Going into business with a friend? Here's how to structure a casual partnership agreement that protects the business and the friendship.
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Cohabitation Agreements for Unmarried Couples
Living together without marriage? A cohabitation agreement protects both partners' finances, property, and expectations.
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What Is CasualContracts?
Not every arrangement needs a lawyer — but most could use a bit more clarity. CasualContracts is a free resource that helps people navigate the grey areas of casual agreements: from privacy and confidentiality expectations to financial terms, boundaries around communication, and how to end arrangements respectfully.
Whether you're entering a roommate arrangement, a dating agreement, a mentorship dynamic, or any other situation where two people want to set expectations clearly, you'll find straightforward guides, real examples, and practical checklists — not legal jargon.
Nothing on this site is legal advice. We provide educational content to help you think through boundaries and communicate expectations clearly.