The job of drafting a domestic contract means contemplating your client’s foreseeable, and also unforeseeable, future events.  Protecting your client from the unknown requires caution. This article can help, with advice on the essential elements of an agreement, and how best to organize them.  A precedent drafting checklist, sample contract structure and sample clauses are attached.

This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Domestic Contracts program in October and November, 2015.