A Practical Guide to Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements

A Practical Guide to Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements
Author: Nicola Frost
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913715175

This concise, practical guide about nuptial agreements is intended to be the go-to text for financial remedy practitioners. It provides a clear explanation of the applicable legal principles involved in drafting and implementing the terms of pre-nuptial or post-nuptial agreements (and their civil partnership equivalents) and provides insightful tips on avoiding common pitfalls. It will also be an essential reference for those faced with an agreement that one party seeks to depart from, with straightforward and practical considerations for clients on both sides. Recent case law and procedural developments are carefully analysed, making this an authoritative and user-friendly reference book.

Prenuptial Agreements

Prenuptial Agreements
Author: Keith Whitaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539917762

Discussing a prenuptial agreement is one of the greatest challenges a couple can face: it involves love, money, and often the dynamics of their families of origin. This white paper describes what a "prenup" includes, how best to approach it as a couple, and how parents of the prospective spouses can be most productively involved. It aims at making the prenup process strengthen rather than undermine couples' future lives together.

Prenups for Lovers

Prenups for Lovers
Author: Arlene Dubin
Publisher: Villard
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2001-06-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0375506624

This ring-to-altar guide is a valentine to anyone who’s dating, contemplating marriage, living with someone, or engaged. In Prenups for Lovers, family-law attorney Arlene G. Dubin describes how prenuptial agreements stimulate communication and compromise, enhancing the prospects for a happy marriage. In addition to defending the much-maligned prenup, Ms. Dubin offers a wise and witty handbook for negotiating an agreement, including: how to pop the “P” word, and how to respond if it’s popped to you; checklists to make sure there will be no court after the courtship; real-life profiles and celebrity tidbits special sections for young people, women, entrepreneurs, and cohabitants; tips for married couples (because it’s never too late). Every bride and groom will say “I do” to prenups after reading this book.

Drafting Prenuptial Agreements

Drafting Prenuptial Agreements
Author: Gary N. Skoloff
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Total Pages: 1577
Release: 1995-12-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0735549494

Prenuptial agreements have exploded over the past 20 years, not only among celebrities, but also for all types of people who desire to protect, manage, or enhance their personal, family, or business assets against foreseen and unforeseen circumstances. Attorneys have been assigned the task of cutting through a morass of issues to create agreements that achieve the goals of their clients while meeting complex, and often subtle, legal requirements. Drafting Prenuptial Agreements is the first guidebook ever to cover this growing area of family law. Written by Gary N. Skoloff and Richard H. Singer, Jr., Skoloff and& Wolfe, Livingston NJ, and Ronald L. Brown, Editor, American Journal of Family Law, Aspen Publishers, Drafting Prenuptial Agreements presents a pragmatic approach to preparing successful agreements quickly and effectively in any situation by grouping together and identifying the common areas that need to be addressed. The authors guide you through planning the agreement and the types of issues to discuss with different clients. This thoughtful organization gives you easy access to the tools you need to clearly present the range of choices to be addressed in each type of agreement and situation. Five sample agreements create broad groupings of issues which let you quickly zero in on the concerns parties at specific stages of life and affluence are most likely to want covered by their prenuptial agreement: YOUNG-YOUNG, EQUAL ASSETSand—For young people in the early stages of promising careers, where each has some assets and wants to protect these, as well as their careers, as separate property. YOUNG-YOUNG, DISPROPORTIONATE ASSETSand—For people of middle age or younger, where one already has, or is likely to acquire, substantial assets, and wants to protect these assets as separate property, while reasonably providing for the needs of the marriage, as well as the spouse and any children upon divorce. YOUNG-OLD, DISPROPORTIONATE ASSETSand—For a couple with a large age disparity, where the older party has substantial wealth which he or she wants to preserve for his or her estate, and also wants to provide for disability or incapacity. OLD-OLD, DISPROPORTIONATE ASSETSand—For an elderly couple, where one party has substantially fewer assets than the other, yet is comfortable, and where both want to protect their separate property, provide for a comfortable lifestyle during the marriage and reasonably provide for the spouse with fewer assets upon death or divorce. OLD-OLD, EQUAL ASSETSand—For older parties with similar assets who want to protect their property as separate, yet provide an arrangement by which they can live commensurate with their resources. Drafting Prenuptial Agreements includes a CD-ROM with sample agreements and hundreds of time-saving clauses!

Prenuptial Agreements

Prenuptial Agreements
Author: Katherine Stoner
Publisher: Nolo
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1413326560

Plan today for peace of mind tomorrow Marriage is so much more than a great wedding. It’s also a legal contract that binds two people together in many aspects of life, including finances. If you and your spouse can’t agree on how to divide assets in the event of a split, the state may end up deciding that for you. Fortunately, you can create a customized prenuptial agreement that addresses your concerns, including: Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. This easy-to-use book covers: protecting each other from debts taking care of children from a previous marriage clarifying financial responsibilities protecting hard-earned assets and much more Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining the foundations of a solid contract. The 6th edition is completely updated to provide the latest laws of your state and includes instructions any couple can use to write a clear agreement. With Downloadable Forms: Easy-to-use worksheets and essential agreement clauses that help you get organized are available for download (details inside).

Divorce

Divorce
Author: Catherine A. Wannamaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780964561502

Explains everything anyone should know before, during and after a divorce.-- Divorce law works best for those who know the law best -- shows how to take charge of the divorce proceedings!-- Helps individuals leave their marriages successfully, with their dignity intact, and begin new lives on firmer financial, legal and emotional foundations.-- Includes the author's unique concept of obtaining a Divorce Financial Consultant to help the individual financially survive the divorce before, during and after the process.A Practical Guide gives hints and valuable pointers for present and future survival. In step-by-step fashion, it leads the reader through the financial maze and complicated legal procedures of divorce. It encourages both husbands and wives to take charge of their lives, their marital finances and their children. Informative, knowledgeable and easy to understand."Don't leave your marriage without Catherine Wannamaker's book!...a well-written account of what it takes for individuals to leave their marriage with dignity, property, and emotions intact". Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Dean Social Systemic Studies, Nova University"Using case studies, sample worksheets and plain talk, this book walks the reader through steps for shaping a secure future". Jessica Heard, Editor, Women Work! newsletter The National Network for Women's Employment

The Generous Prenup

The Generous Prenup
Author: Laurie Israel
Publisher: Integrity Registry Press, LLC
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-04-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0999828711

Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice

Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice
Author: Sharon Thompson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1782255583

This book provides an alternative perspective on an issue fraught with difficulty – the enforcement of prenuptial agreements. Such agreements are enforced because the law acknowledges the rights of spouses to make autonomous decisions about the division of their property on divorce. Yet this book demonstrates that, in the attempt to promote autonomy, other issues, such as imbalance of power between the parties, become obscured. This book offers an academic and practical analysis of the real impact of prenuptial agreements on the relationships of those involved. Using a feminist and contractual theoretical framework, it attempts to produce a more nuanced understanding of the autonomy exercised by parties entering into prenuptial agreements. This book also draws on an empirical study of the experiences and views of practitioners skilled in the formation and litigation of prenuptial agreements in New York. Lastly, it explores how the court might address concerns regarding power and autonomy during the drafting and enforcement processes of prenuptial agreements, which in turn may enhance the role that 'prenups' can play in the judicial allocation of spousal property on the breakdown of marriage.