House Agreement (Adult Children Living at Home)
No bag for adults. Write this in the first week, at a calm time. Let your adult child draft the first version.
On a phone, scroll sideways inside the form to see all of it, or print it.
HOUSE AGREEMENT · ________________ family · Date: __________
1. CONTRIBUTION
[ ] Money: $________ per month, starting __________
[ ] Work instead (or as well): __________________________
2. THE PLAN (if they're between jobs or saving up)
Their idea: ____________________________________________
(for example, applications per week, a savings goal,
a move-out target)
3. COURTESY RULES (not permission rules)
If anybody's not coming home at night, they text, so nobody worries.
Other: ________________________________________________
4. MONEY TALK
Happens at the monthly check-in: ________ (day) at ______ (time).
Not at dinner.
5. IF SOMETHING'S MISSED
We make a catch-up plan at the next check-in.
If it happens twice in a row, we sit down and look at whether
this is working.
6. FORGIVENESS GOES BOTH WAYS
When the parents break the agreement, they say so first.
7. REVIEW DATE: __________
We look at this again then.
Signed: ______________ ______________ ______________Tips
- Everyone who lives in the house signs. If an adult child moves home with a partner or a child, write it with all the adults.