Congratulations! You’re engaged. You’re on your way to walking down the aisle on the happiest day of your life. There’s a lot to do to plan for the wedding. Find a location, book a caterer, find a dress, pick out a cake, and oh so much more. But there’s one more thing engaged couples should…
Prenuptial & Postnuptial Agreements
How to Discuss a Prenuptial Agreement with your Fiancée
Have you been thinking about discussing a prenup with your fiancée? Do you want to have one? Are you concerned that your future spouse or their family wants you to have one? A prenup (prenuptial agreement) is usually the last thing that an engaged couple wants to think about. However, it can be a valuable…
Prenuptial Agreements are Like Fire Insurance
Prenuptial Agreements can be delicate subjects, but they can help protect your interests when embarking on a marriage, where one party has significantly more assets than the other. As family law attorneys we encounter many couples that do not see a divorce coming and feel hurt and blindsided by one partner who wants to divorce.…
How to Ask Your Soon to be Spouse for a Pre-nup
For many people, falling in love and preparing for marriage is a process that is so wonderful that they lose sight of the harsh reality that anything can happen and marriages often end. Therefore, the idea of a Pre-Nup is many times not spoken of, as it implies that there is a possibility that the…
Mediating Your Prenuptial Agreement
When a couple is engaged and planning their wedding it is a happy time in each of their lives, perhaps the best of times. Consideration of a divorce is probably not an option at this point. However, with the national divorce rate being somewhere above 50%, it is something an engaged couple should consider and…
How to Ask Your Fiancé for a Prenuptial Agreement
Congratulations! You’re engaged. You’re on your way to walking down the aisle on the happiest day of your life. There’s a lot to do to plan for the wedding. Find a location, book a caterer, find a dress, pick out a cake, and oh so much more. But there’s one more thing engaged couples should…
Angelina and Brad reportedly have a prenup agreement. Family lawyers say you should, too.
Celebrity watchers reeled when Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt on Sept. 19 after two years of marriage and 12 years together. While determining custody of their six children could prolong the divorce — Jolie is asking for physical custody — the task of dividing Brangelina’s estimated $400 million fortune may go quite…
Do You Need A Prenup?
Short answer: Yes! Long answer: A prenup, or prenuptial agreement if you’re being fancy, is a contract between two people who are getting married. Every prenup is different, but usually it lays out what will happen with regard to property and spousal support if the impending marriage ends in divorce. What exactly is covered and…
Common Prenuptial Agreement Legal Issues
Agreements before (prenuptial) and after marriage are increasingly considered when the marital or cohabiting partners have significant differences in wealth, pension rights, family businesses, and children from previous marriages whose inheritance rights are to be secured. It is often argued that prenuptial agreements reflect a lack of trust. However, we live in a trust but…
Protecting Your Pet in a Divorce
Despite pets being a loving and integral member of families, the law has not caught up with this view, and still sees pets as property. But because pets are such an integral part of families, during a divorce, it can be a “custody” battle over your pet that causes a lot of disagreement and friction.…
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