Samboegendom

The home and household goods you bought to live in together

Samboegendom is your shared home and your shared household goods (bohag), but only if you bought them to use together. This is exactly the property that gets divided if you go your separate ways. If you bought the home before you became sambos (cohabiting partners in the legal sense), or for your own use, it normally does not count here.

The value is split equally, no matter who paid

This is the figure that tends to worry people most: in a property division (bodelning), the samboegendom is added together once any debts are covered, and the value is split 50/50. It does not matter who paid the deposit or whose name is on the ownership. If you do not count as sambos in the eyes of the law, no such division happens at all, so it is worth knowing where you stand.

Some things can be kept out

Not everything has to be split. Property you received as a gift, inheritance or by will with a condition that it stays your own separate property (enskild egendom) is not part of the samboegendom. Neither is property used mainly for leisure. If you want the division to work differently, for example if one of you put in a larger contribution, you can write a cohabitation agreement (samboavtal). As a rule of thumb it is a calm and inexpensive step to take before you buy together, so you know where you stand in advance rather than in a difficult moment.