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The future
is something
you shape
together.

Fair Planen helps couples sort through shared decisions and develop agreements that fit their own circumstances.

Clear agreements create room for what matters.
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15 questions · 4 perspectives · 3 steps

01

First Questions

The Fair Planen Conversation Starter is a compact PDF guide with 15 curated questions. It helps you see which topics in your current situation need attention first.

These include shared expenses, personal room to make choices, unpaid work, parental leave, housing, protection and upcoming decisions.

15 curated questions

for a calm, focused start.

Four perspectives

Finances, care work, time, as well as risk and the future.

Your next steps

so you can see where you want to begin.

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02

When Fair Planen becomes relevant.

Fair Planen supports couples where personal decisions start to become shared structures.

A Moving in together & shared costsWhen rent, accounts, purchases and personal room to make choices are organised together for the first time.
B Different incomes & life stagesWhen contributions look equal, but savings, security or remaining freedom differ.
C Children, parental leave & KarenzWhen childcare, reduced working hours, income, financial safeguards and returning to work need to be planned together.
D Housing, ownership & international circumstancesWhen contracts, property, place of residence or different legal and cultural starting points call for new agreements.

Not everything
that is split equally
is carried equally.

Couple planning together on a sofa with a tablet

Shared decisions often involve contributions, time, responsibilities, safeguards and long-term consequences at the same time.

03

The Fair Planen Workbook

For couples who want to turn first answers into concrete models, their own figures and agreements they can revisit.

The Workbook guides you from your current situation to a shared working draft - with cost models, worksheets, agreement pages and additional modules for parental leave/Karenz as well as DACH and international circumstances.

  • 99 pages with a core path and 2 additional modules
  • worksheets for your own numbers, pressures and decisions
  • worked models for 50/50, proportional sharing and compensation
  • agreement pages for finances, care work, housing and family phases
  • over 40 checked sources from research, official information and legal texts
Preview

What is inside the Workbook

Rendered English Workbook page with table of contents and page numbers.
99 pages with a core path and two additional modules.
Rendered English Workbook worksheet page for entering your own figures.
For filling in with your own numbers.
Rendered English Workbook page with worked cost example for Person A and Person B, 50/50 and proportional sharing.
A worked example, not an empty template.
Rendered English Workbook page with the first Fair Planen agreement and review fields.
At the end, you capture your shared working draft.
Rendered English Workbook page about DACH legal terms and their different effects.
DACH terms checked separately - Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
Rendered English Workbook page with sources from studies, official resources and legal texts.
42 checked sources from research, official information and legal texts.
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04

FAQ

1. What is the difference between First Questions and the Workbook? +

The Conversation Starter helps you identify your first priorities. The Workbook uses models, worksheets and agreement pages to guide you towards a concrete working draft.

2. Do we have to start with the Workbook? +

No. You can begin with the Conversation Starter and decide later whether you want to go deeper.

3. Is Fair Planen only for married couples? +

No. Fair Planen is for couples who want to shape their shared future - married or unmarried.

4. Does Fair Planen define what is fair? +

No. Fair Planen does not take sides and does not assume a predefined model. The Conversation Starter and Workbook help you look at different areas of your shared life - so you understand each other better, have a shared basis for the conversation and notice topics you may not have considered before. You decide and develop the solution that feels fair for you.

5. Is Fair Planen also available in German? +

Yes. The Conversation Starter and Workbook are available in both English and German. The legal terms and examples still follow the DACH context.

6. Is this legal advice? +

No. Fair Planen does not replace legal, tax or financial advice. It helps you prepare questions and decisions more clearly.

7. What do we have after working through the Workbook? +

You have a first shared working model with concrete agreements on costs, responsibilities, housing, safeguards and the next review date.