You have a well paying job and are looking to tie the knot with a new spouse. After your wedding, you probably plan on having children and are considering leaving your job so you can stay at home to care for your young ones. If so, this is a good time to think about...
Prenuptial Agreements
Business owners need the protection of a prenuptial agreement
Before the wedding, your business is your own, but after, it could gradually become your spouse's property, as well. This happens through a process called commingling, where the assets and finances of the marriage help the interest in the business grow, and that...
7 reasons you may need a prenuptial agreement
Summer is fast approaching, and you may be planning the last-minute details of your June, July or August wedding. While you focus on choosing what food to serve or what your reception entertainment will be, you may want to add another item to your wedding to-do list:...
3 things to add to your prenuptial agreement
Prenups are not just for the rich and famous anymore. The Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers saw a rise in prenups in 2016. Over 51% of them saw an increase in requests from millennials. A prenuptial agreement is a contract between two people who plan to get married. The...
How should you ask your significant other for a prenup?
Preparing to get married can surface a lot of emotions and introduce unique challenges into your relationship. Adding another concern to your laundry list of wedding responsibilities may seem both unnecessary and uncomfortable. However, having a prenuptial agreement...
Different clauses in prenuptial agreements
Engaged couples may eagerly anticipate and plan their weddings, yet overlook important elements of their marriages or even potential divorces should the marriages not survive. Prenuptial agreements, once believed useful only for the rich and famous, today enable...
3 things you cannot include in a prenuptial agreement
If you are getting married in the near future, you may already have plans to draft and finalize a prenuptial agreement. According to CNBC, 62% of attorneys who participated in a recent survey reported that they had seen an increased in the number of couples seeking...
Does Minnesota allow couples to sign postnuptial agreements?
Most people in Minnesota, and across the nation for that matter, are turned off by the idea of prenuptial agreements because they foreshadow divorce which is not something people typically think about right before they're about to get married. It's because of this...
A prenuptial agreement’s terms can be very impactful
What the specific terms are of a prenuptial agreement can impact many things. One is whether or not the agreement will ultimately be enforced. When a prenup's terms are deemed to be unfair in a significant way to one of the parties to the agreement, the agreement may...
Things to know before drafting and executing a prenuptial agreement: part III
In our last blog post, we discussed how a prenuptial agreement can be used to help protect financial interests an individual brings to a marriage or inherits during a marriage in the event he or she subsequently divorces. In this final post of our series on prenuptial...