Posted on 02/15/2006 5:51:53 PM PST by qam1
Considering this is the Age of Oprah and Dr. Phil, yes I do.
Those same kids are the ones who are tempted to "pull the feeding tubes" and over medicate dear old mommy and daddy. My aunt cites an instance where that happened. She was the floor nurse, and when she wouldn't up mother's morphine, the greedy bitch of a daughter reported my aunt to the doctor.
Nothing happened to my aunt, discipline wise, but she did walk in to the room to hear some ugly talk from the daughter directed at her mother. Mother declined rapidly, and was dead within the week. That was a very long time ago, and my aunt will never forget.
My mother passed away in September 2003. I got a real good look at a couple of my children. My mom and aunt wanted to protect me from my then husband, so I did not inherit according to mom's will. I had to lay down after the funeral, and my oldest was hitting up my aunt for "her share" of the estate.
There is more, but that's all I'm going to say on that topic.
If you have decent relatives, why not provide for them if possible? What are you going to do with family heirlooms, if not pass them down to children and grandchildren?
The kids can always make their own money, if they don't like the terms under which they'd get their hands on hers. :)
having drafted a few of these little wonders, it is very interesting to observe the difference between the men and women.
Women have prenups for different reasons than men. Generally, if it is a "professional" woman the prenup is a indication that the woman is a feminist and has no intention of being a wife. She just wants to be married for some unknown reason. Women are looking for an escape route.
Men are strictly asset protection. Men are looking to preserve themselves.
In either case, if not drafted correctly and REASONABLY they can be challenged successfully.
so by the MSM opinion:
When a professional man wants a prenup he is being a selfish pig who is cheating the woman by getting ready for divorce. How dare he weasel out of paying support to the woman.
When a professional womyn wans a prenup she is being a liberated independed woman who is protecting the fruits of her labors from a money grubbing man. (heaven forbid SHE have to pay support...)
Actually in all seriousness, prenups can be very valuable to help OLDER people who have adult children and assets they want to go to their children.
When people are concerned with a decimal place on some egg-heads spread sheet more than the important issues in life they've already lost the battle and should be "cashing in their chip" so to speak.....
That's how the "Life Extension Industry" intends it to be. They'll keep your sorry a$$ on this mortal coil until the cash runs out or your entire family is in debt up to their ears....
a very sad state of affairs (i.m.h.o.)
This would make a heck of a movie of the week. Son meets girl. Falls in love. Hard. Wants to get married. Mother demands a prenup, or he loses out on millions. Girl won't do it. Son has to choose.
Hey, wasn't this an episode of "The Love Boat"?
Does anyone else see something wrong here?
He doesn't lose out, if you read the article - he just has to wait a lot longer for the money. If he thinks love comes first, he won't mind the wait. Right?
Whenever these man/woman, divorce, or pre-nup threads come up, there is so much bitterness thrown around I think I'm on DU. Am I the only person on FR that's happily (and FULLY) married, and has been for MANY years (19) ?
Seems like it sometimes.
Yeah, but in MY movie-of-the-week, the mother would be an old shrew (think Hillary) who demanded the pre-nup, or NO money.
And of course, the boy would choose the girl and accidentally discover the "next big thing" and become richer than the mother ever dreamed.
Dramatic license, y'know ?
I guess I don't see why pre-nups are seen as the evil counterfoil to True Love. If there are large family assets to be protected, they can be a smart move. My husband and I have always had very even assets, so we did not see the need. I am my parents' sole heir and executor, but they did not see the need to regulate the inheritance (I'm 50 and still waiting!). They liked my husband and I was 31 when I married, so this was not a sudden, youthful decision that they felt they had to shelter me, and my potential assets, from.
I think there was a movie of the week that was close to that. "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" comes to mind. I may be wrong.
I am all for it!
I'd be satisfied with one fewer John Kerry.
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