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Where is the love? (Prenups)
The Lowell Sun ^
| 02/14/2006
| Rita Savard
Posted on 02/15/2006 5:51:53 PM PST by qam1
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:51:55 PM PST
by
qam1
To: qam1
Well its her money, she can disperse it anyway she wants
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:54:54 PM PST
by
apackof2
(You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won't back down)
To: qam1
Anyone who gets miffed at this is living in denial. Family money is family money, it should not go to ex-spouses if your kid gets a divorce.
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:55:30 PM PST
by
misterrob
(Islam is a hate crime)
To: qam1
I agree. The problem is not with prenups, although none of my children have them. The problem is with frequent divorce.
This is not that different from entailment, which used to be common among landed families in England.
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:58:05 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: apackof2
My mother's husband pocketed as much of her cash as he could after she died even though there was a will that she had been in the middle of updating. Problem was that updating negated the previous will and postnup agreement.
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:58:08 PM PST
by
misterrob
(Islam is a hate crime)
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:58:17 PM PST
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: qam1
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:01:38 PM PST
by
lowbridge
(I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
To: misterrob
Ridiculous!
I'm sorry
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:02:29 PM PST
by
apackof2
(You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won't back down)
To: qam1
What an awesome way to protect your kids!
"I'm sorry baby. You KNOW I love you, but my folks wont let me do this without that prenup. You are a wonderful girl, probably the best I will ever meet, but unfortunately I will need to eat whether you hang around or not. So lets just pretend we are married? We can call it a 'test-drive'. Oh baby, don't be that way. You KNOW I love you. Don't make me choose between you and my food!"
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:03:21 PM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: qam1
I like this variation on the conditional bequest.
If god forbid I have to get remarried I am doing a prenup.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:05:33 PM PST
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: qam1
Amazing, isn't it? Women love to cling to the man with money and desire the ability to soak him for every dime if the marriage doesn't work out. But when it's the woman with the money, they insist on the prenup.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:06:57 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(Hunting with Cheney still safer than driving with a Kennedy)
To: Pukin Dog
Hmmmmmmmmm....I suspect its a way to get your kids majorly pissed off, but hey - it ain't their $$$!!!!
Given my track record, if I had a large estate I might consider doing something like this - if they do screw up and have to wait til 55, they will be beaucoup grateful that Mom & Dad loved them enough to do this, knowing it might cause some problems in the short term.........
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:07:28 PM PST
by
Al Simmons
("Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die" - Theodore Roosevelt)
To: qam1
I wonder if going into a marriage defensively will ironically contribute to a divorce later.
While I can see certain advantages to a prenup, I also see the hidden message: that you don't trust your spouse.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:17:10 PM PST
by
MoochPooch
(A righteous person worries about his or her behavior, an extremist about everyone else's.)
To: qam1
I'm in favor of a prenup when there are children from a previous marriage, and a decent amount of assets that belong to said children.
I thought family money, assets, and items aquired before marriage were exempt from a divorce settlement?
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:18:28 PM PST
by
TheSpottedOwl
(Support the fence....grow a Victory Garden!)
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:19:03 PM PST
by
day10
(Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
To: qam1
Smart move by the parents ... as a lot of people said here "its their money, they can do with it as they please".
But I'm sure there will be some very crafty lawyers who will circumvent this clause.
I just figure, why bother getting married at all these days. For us gen-x'ers there is no benefit to it any more ... at least as far as I have observed.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:22:14 PM PST
by
MaDeuce
(Do it to them, before they do it to you!)
To: day10
ahh yes the OVER-legalization of our nation continues....
I stopped reading when I hit the line about where they lived (Massachusetts).....
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:22:57 PM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(Brokeback Mountain: The ONLY western where the Cowboys GET IT IN THE END!!!)
To: SamAdams76
Amazing, isn't it? Women love to cling to the man with money and desire the ability to soak him for every dime if the marriage doesn't work out. But when it's the woman with the money, they insist on the prenup. No, that's smart.
We men aren't as smart... at least the first time.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:23:44 PM PST
by
bikepacker67
(Islam was born of Hagar the whore.)
To: MoochPooch
"I wonder if going into a marriage defensively will ironically contribute to a divorce later"
Maybe this is a bad analogy, but I keep thinking of words like "regulation" and "manipulation" and "control" when I hear prenup. And those are Democrat words. The 'rats always have to control every little thing.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:25:17 PM PST
by
jdm
(You can learn a lot about paranoids just by following them around.)
To: qam1
Is this controlling and money obsessed woman going to dictate the terms of the pre-nups, for her not even marriagable aged children?
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:26:01 PM PST
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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