Category Archives: Prenuptial Agreements
4 Wholesome Reasons to Sign a Postnuptial Agreement
If you tell parties outside the relationship that you and your spouse signed a financial agreement with each other to resolve a conflict, they will probably think that your relationship is in trouble. To people who did not draft it, a postnuptial agreement sounds like an ultimatum; people who have not lived through the… Read More »
Can a Postnuptial Agreement Save Your Marriage and Your Immigration Status?
According to Florida law, you do not need to persuade the court that it is time to give up on your marriage. Florida recognizes no-fault divorce, which means that any couple that no longer wishes to stay married can ask the court to dissolve their marriage, and the court does not need to decide… Read More »
What Happens If You Do Not Abide by the Terms of Your Own Prenuptial Agreement?
Anyone who has had to live with meddlesome in-laws can tell you that one of the secrets to a successful marriage is making your own set of rules and customs with your spouse, just the two of you, and following them; eventually, your children will be part of the unique culture of your immediate… Read More »
Is a Postnuptial Agreement Your Ticket to a Painless Divorce?
Dating someone on an off again on again basis is common enough that Facebook created the “it’s complicated” relationship status option early in its history. Whether you are married is a simple yes or no question, though, at least as far as the courts are concerned. Case in point, if one spouse dies when… Read More »
You Can Never Proofread a Prenuptial Agreement Too Carefully
For most students, sentence diagramming represents the utmost drudgery; it is the least fun part of school, even worse than long division. Future lawyers, by contrast, get a kick out of seeing prepositional phrases dangling from the main clause with acrobatic agility and subordinate clauses clinging tenuously to each other like atoms in a… Read More »
Alternatives to Legal Separation in Florida
Florida has lots of things that are rare, if not nonexistent, in other states, and perhaps anywhere else in the world. For example, South Florida is the only place on Earth that is home to both a native species of alligator and a native species of crocodile. It is also one of very few… Read More »
Managing Prenuptial Agreement Regret
Love makes us more daring than we otherwise would be. You might know a cautious, risk averse couple who knew each other for less than a year before they got married, but they have stayed married for decades. Something made them take a leap of faith that was out of character for them, and… Read More »
Don’t Let Debt Ruin Your Marriage
Money can’t buy love, but if divorce statistics are any indication, it is perfectly capable of ruining it. Couples take vows to stay together for richer or for poorer, but ongoing financial stress can bring out the worst in everyone. Sometimes couples blame each other for their financial problems; you think that everything would… Read More »
Can a Prenuptial Agreement in Florida Do What Covenant Marriages Do in Other States?
Compared to their parents’ generation, a smaller percentage of American adults below the age of 40 are married, but a smaller percentage of marriages end in divorce. Lots of today’s young adults have divorced parents and are of the opinion that you should not marry someone unless you are sure that you want to… Read More »
Can a Prenuptial Agreement Trap You in a Bad Marriage?
Conventional wisdom says that pessimists think that prenuptial agreements cause divorce, optimists think that prenups help couples resolve their differences and stay married, and realists believe that divorce is inevitable for some couples and that prenups make the divorce process simpler. People sign prenups for a variety of reasons, including wanting to keep their… Read More »