Category Archives: Prenuptial Agreements
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 »
Prenuptial Agreements Enable You to Make Your Own Rules
When a new employer presents you with an employment contract, your eyes immediately skip to the part about how much money you get and all the meals, plane tickets, and hotel rooms your employer will pay for. From a legal perspective, though, the most important sentence in the contract is, “The laws of Florida… Read More »
You Can Never Be Too Specific in a Prenuptial Agreement
Prenuptial agreements are not a vote of no confidence in your future spouse; rather, they are a set of instructions for resolving conflicts about money that might arise during the marriage, during the probate of one spouse’s estate, or in the event of a divorce. Florida law requires equitable distribution of marital property, which… Read More »
What If Your Prenuptial Agreement Has The Opposite Of Its Intended Effect?
The best prenuptial agreements reflect a clear understanding of the couple’s finances and values; sometimes they can prevent divorce, and even when they can’t, both spouses emerge from the marriage with what they agree is a fair share of property. Prenuptial agreements are not a perfect guarantee of a painless divorce, however. When a… Read More »
Prenuptial Agreement Lifestyle Clauses: Legal Boilerplate Or A Red Flag?
Every marriage has its own unique set of rules. Some couples never go to bed angry, while others never discuss sensitive topics when they are tired. Some couples are so averse to outside flirtation that they share an email address, while others have a strict “no jealousy” policy about socializing with the opposite sex. … Read More »
Prenuptial Agreements Are Not The Latest Engagement Ring Fad, But Maybe They Should Be
Suffice it to say that, as the nature of marriage and divorce has changed over the past several decades, so has the nature of prenuptial agreements. Divorce rates increased sharply with the advent of no fault divorce laws, but as an increasing number of women remained in the workforce throughout their marriages, the courts… Read More »
A Prenuptial Agreement Can Stop A Brief Marriage From Derailing Your Finances
In their best applications, prenuptial agreements can prevent divorce. You can sign them and then go forward with a marriage where you are honest with each other about finances, only for the prenup to corroborate what the parties wrote in their wills, thereby preventing disputes during probate. Prenuptial agreements can also be an acknowledgement… Read More »
3 Problems You Can Solve By Signing A Prenuptial Agreement
Prenuptial agreements can do more than limit the amount of money your trophy wife can take from your vast fortune in the event of a divorce. In an age where households with six-figure incomes are living paycheck to paycheck, most of us can’t even afford the paper on which to print a prenuptial agreement… Read More »
Does A Prenuptial Agreement Always Mean A Painless Divorce?
Dividing a deceased person’s property is much easier if the decedent wrote a will. Likewise, dividing a couple’s property is much easier if the couple signed a prenuptial agreement before they got married. Of course, that is a cynical way of looking at things. Everyone who is born will eventually die, but not every… Read More »
