Category Archives: Prenuptial Agreements
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 »
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 »