I looked this up and it's not true. If there are no explicit documents, the court will interpret what the intention of the couple were in terms of ownership. If the property is in one person's name, that person tends to keep the property. If the property is put in both names then it is split 50/50.
My statement of 6 months is incorrect: it is two years of cohabitation, unless there is a child, or other circumstances.
In regards to splitting assets, there is no hard and fast rule: meaning it could slice either way.
It’s complicated because even prenups can be overturned if one partner experiences regret and the courts decide the prenup wasn’t “fair”.
The law is surprising enough to enough people that they’re looking at changing it.
Or, at least this is what I've been told, I don't speak Swedish enough to read the relevant law myself but it's been corroborated by enough people I trust.
So if X owns a home, then meets Y and they both start living in X's home, if they split up X will still own all of it. However if X buys a home for X and Y to live in, then it doesn't matter that Y didn't pay anything the home is still owned 50/50 according to Sambolagen. X can avoid this by making a written statement that the home belongs to X signed by Y.
because automatically tying personal and romantic relationships and property arrangements together seems odd to people who want to keep them apart, just like some people might not want to have any relationship with their family any more and don't want to fiscally depend on them, or the other way around.
It seems archaic to me to have some sort of parallel informal and customary law based on kinship that you're automatically opted into.
I suppose that depends on which side of the financial scales you are on.
Obviously designed to protect the rights of people in this situation long term, it's also rather frightening.