Posted on 01/22/2020 11:20:53 AM PST by nickcarraway
Idiotic.
Marriage is “Tell Death Do Us Part”, period, end of subject, no exceptions, as far as I am concerned.
I’d be quite OK if it was illegal, as with bankruptcy, just eliminate it.
“So even if you are a truly devoted couple in love where divorce is extremely unlikely, the attorney can at least make some money on preparing a prenup document.”
a pre-nup is like an insurance policy: you hope you never need to use it, but it’s foolish not to have it ...
Aren’t a lot of these prenups a form of Muslim marriage?
“A prenup at the time we got married would have protected a good solid couple hundred dollars! If I had even that!”
ROTFLOL!
That’s why over 75% of divorces are brought by the wife. They dump the guy, but still get the kids, the house, child support and “maintenance/alimony”.
Living with another human being can be challenging sometimes. It’s not for weenies, or precious snowflakes.
Just watched A Marriage Story on Netflix. Ouch.
Would you advise your daughter to sign one? Some of them are basically turning the woman into a prostitute. What kind of women would agree to one of these prostitution schemes?
I can see it in cases where someone gets married in later life, perhaps already has kids and one or both have significant assets to protect and don’t want their pre-marrige ‘stuff’ to become communal property.
But for most young people starting out, on more or less equal footing, seems like a really bad idea. Getting a divorce shouldn’t be easy or friction-free. Part of having co-owned and co-mingled assets makes walking away from a marriage harder - and perhaps even causes some folks to stick out during the tough times.
It seems like divorce favors whoever is the most ruthless. Yes, a lot of men get screwed over. But I’ve known women who were too.
42 years ago we both had nothing but an education. I didn’t know it but my wife had some small student loans. She got a job, I thought to have something to do and never asked what she did with the money. She paid off her loans in a short time. What we have we have earned together. What she earned along the way is hers. She took care of the kids, the house and me. I earned us a living and retirement. When I go all of them are taken care of if there is no great disaster. If that happens, I did all I could to be prepared.
There have been some troubled times but you resolve not to quit because of them.
It is a cold, snowy, sloppy day here. I’ve enjoyed a hot bowl of chili and cornbread and a brownie with ice cream with my coffee for lunch in a warm, clean, comfortable home.
We have both done as we agreed a long time ago. I am saddened for anyone who has not enjoyed that. Especially with children.
Highly recommend a fair prenup as well (or even a post-nuptial agreement).
Call it a $500-$1000 insurance policy that may save you millions (literally in my case it would have). Especially in the current facebook/instagram/tinder/etc environment, if you are a millennial or younger and have aspirations to do well financially, get a pre-nup!
Prenup could also have limited alimony, split of assets you earned in the future, child custody, etc. In my case, I was making $28k when I proposed to my wife in 2006. I now make $350k+ with significant upside potential if I ever make it to the C-suite of a public company (not far off). When we almost divorced last year, the alimony I owed alone was approaching a million bucks, plus split of half the approaching 7 digits in assets. And that was with zero kids in the picture. We have reconciled since then and are going to do a post-nuptial agreement shortly.
bingo
All depends on circumstances, and character of the individuals in matrimony. For example if both are doctors or have similar professionals, how is a prenup necessary?
It can cause unnecessary consternation and doubts in the party being asked to sign a prenup or else no marriage.
If on the other hand one party is much more wealthy than the other at time of marriage, a prenup is good idea.
With the current divorce laws, she will, as you'll be paying alimony (and child support if < 18 still) for a very, very long time if she ever left plus split half the assets and pay massive divorce lawyer bill for BOTH of you.
the research is apparently mixed: some studies say yes, some say no ...
for what it’s worth here’s a bazillion other stats about the bazillion other factors that make divorce more or less likely:
https://www.wf-lawyers.com/divorce-statistics-and-facts/
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