Category Archives: Prenuptial Agreements
A Prenuptial Agreement Can Keep the Peace in Your Single Income Marriage
It is easy for married couples to operate for years on unspoken assumptions about what is mine and what is ours, and they often do not know that their assumptions are mismatched unless they get divorced. You have probably heard horror stories of dual income couples where both couples worked constantly, spent constantly, and… Read More »
Can a Gray Postnup Prevent Divorce?
Once Spring Break ends, it is full speed ahead to looking forward to summer vacation. Every moment of the countdown is sweet, but many kids find themselves in a terrible mood when they get home after the last day of school, knowing that they do not have to go back to school until months… Read More »
Think Like Your Future Self Before You Sign a Prenuptial Agreement
Young people generally have a hard time estimating what they would do with a certain amount of money, especially if it is more money than they have ever personally controlled. If you have ever doubted this, try asking a room full of high school students, or even a room full of college students, what… Read More »
Keep the Marriage, Lose the Financial Entanglements?
The decision about whether to marry your partner or live together as unmarried domestic partners often comes down to money and the emotions attached to it. For example, the actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins had a decades long romantic relationship, during which they lived in the same house and raised children together. Once,… Read More »
Do You Dare to Keep Your Property Separate When You Get Married?
Few experiences in life are more painful than lengthy divorce battles, where a judge must decide how to divide the couple’s marital property. This is a major reason why so many people hesitate to get married. Relationships are difficult, anyway, and so are finances. It is another reason why young people are embracing prenuptial… Read More »
Prenuptial Agreements Alleviate the Financial Pain of Divorce, but Not the Emotional Pain
Years ago, when Julia Rodgers founded the startup company Hello Prenup, she did it with the goal of making prenuptial agreements affordable and accessible to couples in all income brackets. Rodgers is a family law attorney, and she had seen numerous cases where prenups enabled the divorce case to resolve with less stress and… Read More »
What If Your Marital Settlement Agreement Conflicts With Your Prenup?
Only an indefatigable optimist will tell you that prenuptial agreements prevent divorce, but anyone can see that they are effective at making divorce cases less messy. Yes, there are cases where couples in the process of divorce disagree about the interpretation, but they are the exception to the rule. For example, somewhere in South… Read More »
Can a Prenuptial Agreement Help You Avoid Repeating the Mistakes of Your First Marriage?
The statistic that says that 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce does not tell the whole story. If it is your first marriage, then the chances of divorce are less than 50 percent. If you were previously married to someone else, though, the chances are greater than 50 percent that your current… Read More »
When Does a Marital Settlement Agreement Become a Postnuptial Agreement?
You can read the statistics about getting divorced, but almost getting divorced and then reconciling with your spouse is more common than you think. It’s hard to find data about it because, from a legal perspective, an almost divorced couple is a married couple. When someone in the midst of a pending divorce dies,… Read More »
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 »