Iamsemisweet
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I guess I could see not getting one if you are in your 20s, no assets, really nothing to worry about. But for second marriages where there are kids from a previous marriage, or once you have assets and substantial income, or even for young people where one of the parties has family money, I can't imagine not having one. Otherwise the State gets to choose how your property etc., is divided in the event a marriage fails. Who wants some idiot family law judge determining your financial and personal future? Not me, for sure. Plus, it costs about a grand to get a prenup done. A nice, juicy divorce with lots of fighting, on the other hand, will send a good lawyer's kids to college. Think about it. I find it kind of ironic that more than once I have read on these threads about some man bitching because "he lost everything in the divorce." I also have friends who have been stay at home moms who are now sweating bullets because they don't know how they will support themselves after their divorce. All I can think is, shoulda had a prenup! But then, they probably didn't want to "set their marriages up for failure." LOL. I actually had a client call me this week THANKING me for INSISTING he get a post nup (they had already gotten married when I twisted his arm). I will admit that for 20 year marriage I did not have one, although since both of us had pretty good incomes and it was an extremely amicable divorce, it worked out anyway. Still, I am planning on marrying again some day, and I will absolutely insist on a prenup. If my fiance doesn't like it, well, I guess that is what you call an irreconcilable difference. Part of my reasoning is that having a prenup makes children from previous marriages much more accepting of the new spouse.
< Message edited by Iamsemisweet -- 9/23/2011 10:26:32 AM >
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