Category Archives: Prenuptial Agreements
When a Florida Court Will Throw Out a Prenuptial Agreement
A Florida court will throw out a prenuptial agreement if it was signed involuntarily, if it resulted from fraud, duress, coercion, or overreaching, or if it was unconscionable when signed and paired with inadequate financial disclosure. In other words, a prenup isn’t bulletproof just because both parties signed it with a notary standing nearby…. Read More »
Why More Florida Couples Are Seeking Postnuptial Agreements After Major Life Changes
You said “I do” years ago, but life has thrown a few curveballs since then. Maybe you started a business that took off, maybe you inherited a beach condo from an aunt you barely knew, or maybe you are simply rebuilding trust after a rough patch. So here is a question worth asking: if… Read More »
Protecting a Family Business With a Prenuptial Agreement in Boca Raton
Your grandfather started the business in a garage. Your father built it into something real. Now it is yours, and you are engaged. Romantic, sure, but here is a less romantic question worth asking before the wedding: what happens to three generations of work if the marriage does not last? A prenuptial agreement is… Read More »
5 Things a Florida Prenuptial Agreement Cannot Legally Do
Thinking a prenup lets you contract your way around anything you don’t want to deal with later? Not quite. Florida law gives couples wide latitude to customize a premarital agreement, but that flexibility has real limits. A handful of provisions simply won’t hold up in court, no matter how carefully worded or how enthusiastically… Read More »
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 »