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By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:58:52 +0000

DH and I don’t have a prenup for two reasons: 1 – divorce is not an option. 2 – we were both dirt poor and fresh out of college when we married. No assets, no property, and no real debt. If something were to happen to him tomorrow and I re-married, I probably would get a prenup though. I would never enter into a marriage thinking that we might divorce, but I would want to be darn sure that my kids are protected if I ever made a judgement error regarding who I’m sharing my life with.

As far as future inheritances go, my family property/money will be inherited by me, as an individual, and not my husband, so as long as I keep it in my own name and don’t co-mingle it with our our family accounts it is not subject to division in the event of a divorce.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:57:29 +0000

I think prenups are especially good if there is a definite difference in income, one spouse has a large amount of debt, or if there are particular assets one wants to keep separate. A piece of land that was passed down from one person’s family, for example. I also think one should be made if the one spouse intends on not working and staying home to raise the family.

Personally, my divorce was fairly straight forward in that regard, however, I have known several people who ended up being married for many years and then going through very messy, very expensive (one was $80,000 just in legal fees) divorces.

By: izanobu

izanobu — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:55:14 +0000

Maybe I’m naive, but my husband and I don’t have a prenup. For one, we’re not rich and not likely to be rich ever. For another, if I had even the remotest belief that we could be divorced someday, I wouldn’t have married him. I think sometimes people end up divorced because they don’t put enough thought into things BEFORE they get married. Getting married is just the thing that one does at a certain point in a relationship, right? But there are plenty of people I know who shouldn’t get married even if they’ll have a good relationship for a few years.

I think prenups could come in handy if you have tons of assets and children not from the marriage to protect.

But for us, if we ever did divorce, we’d just split it 50/50 (yeah, we’ve discussed it even, before we were married)