How to Buy Property with Chosen Family

^{JUNE 2025}

A national legal starter guide to co-owning a home or land with chosen family, including poly people and families.

Created by the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition and the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at Harvard Law School
Lead author: Samara Trilling

This national legal guide is a project of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at Harvard Law School and the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition on how to purchase and share housing or land with up to ten other people.Contents

Welcome!

Co-buying property timeline

1. Defining your vision and decisionmaking structures

2. Gathering professional allies

3. Choosing your property

4. Purchasing, financing and holding your property

5. Operating and living at your property

6. Separation, disentanglement and transitions

7. Joining process for new members

8. Discrimination based on family and relationship structure

Resources

Appendix

Thank yous

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