Pre-nuptial agreements, ermmm....yes surely?

[TheMetetron]

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I have been thinking a lot about this lately. Telling her that I WILL NOT marry her or anyone else ever without a pre-nuptial agreement might have been difficult, but I have solved it:

I am a business owner, and have a business partner. Therefore, I will LIE MY ASS OFF and say that it is included in my partnership agreement that neither of us may marry without a pre-nuptial agreement. The ostensible reason will be that my business partner and I decided as we were starting that we need to insulate ourselves against the other's potential spouse.

I honestly think this was just barely short of genius.

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This is obvious. Actually get this written into your partnership agreement though.

[gusmahler]

There was one interesting court case in Arizona: W and H, married for years, file for divorce. On August 1, they go to court and state their marriage is irretrievably broken. On August 3, H buys a lottery ticket and wins over $1M. On August 8, the judgment is finalized and entered. Much litigation later, the court rules that both W and H get half the lottery proceeds because they were still married when the ticket was purchased.

[SackUp]

spend more time figuring out if you are truly compatible than worrying about a prenup. Realize that things will be hard and you need to work through them rather than taking the easy out.

with that said, how funds will be distributed in a divorce depends on where you live - whether it is a community property state or not (as gusmahler said).

[Rushmore]

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I have been thinking a lot about this lately. Telling her that I WILL NOT marry her or anyone else ever without a pre-nuptial agreement might have been difficult, but I have solved it:

I am a business owner, and have a business partner. Therefore, I will LIE MY ASS OFF and say that it is included in my partnership agreement that neither of us may marry without a pre-nuptial agreement. The ostensible reason will be that my business partner and I decided as we were starting that we need to insulate ourselves against the other's potential spouse.

I honestly think this was just barely short of genius.

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This is obvious. Actually get this written into your partnership agreement though.

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These aspects are covered in my partnership agreement, but they have nothing whatsoever to do with anyone having a prenuptial agreement. That part is a LIE.

This thread needs to be moved to the High Stakes forum.

[NajdorfDefense]

Yes, surely. Split all married proceeds 50/50 but why should she get your stuff from when you were slamming some hog like 3 girls and 5 years ago?

Of course, if she's loaded then strenuously object.