Prenuptial Agreements

Prenuptial Agreement

Marriage Protection

I t was once the domain of the rich and the wealthy who had to protect their wealth and their sanity. If they did not do that , they may have to pay out in millions to their ex spouse . There are women who marry and got divorce after a year or two and got huge sums in alimony payments . Today , many ordinary folks in the land down under are going to the lawyers to sign prenuptial agreements before they want to get married. "AUSTRALIAN couples are turning to lawyers to settle weekly household arguments over who cleans the toilet, walks the dog and even how much their partner should weigh." I wonder why they would want to get married if they cannot agree with those terms or agreed upon it but must have it in black and white. Is love, trust and commitments not enough? Do they trust those small slips of paper than the love for each other? Can they guarantee what the future holds? It is like they are deluding themselves if they added those extra conditions other than their wealth . Australians are more realistic and more pragmatic about the value of love and can quantify it by having a contract that specifies all the roles in a marriage. They can then break up if the conditions are not met. Marriage has become like a business preposition .

It sounds so mercenary and devoid of love and care which is a prerequisite for a good and long lasting marriage. In celebrity prenups, infidelity clauses are common. Michael Douglas agreed to pay Catherine Zeta-Jones millions should he stray, and Denise Richards made similar requirements of Charlie Sheen. Others such as Paul McCartney, Greg Norman and Jessica Simpson have been stung for millions in divorce settlements without a prenup. -Daily Telegraph. No one would hope that their marriage would end even before they want to get married. Some people are more savvy and hope to have an insurance , just in case the marriage does not work out. It maybe about the financials but anything more than that is not worth putting it on paper. You can put everything in black and white and then getting a judgment against your spouse but enforcing the ruling is a different matter . You may win but get nothing in return and have to pay all those lawyer's expenses. It maybe unromantic and take the wind out of your sail but it prevents heartbreaks in the long run. There is never knowing what will happen when your love morphed  into a monster. Would you sign a prenuptials and all those cranky  ideas and separation of roles in the marriage?

Reference and thanks to;-

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24191974-5006007,00.html

pros and cons of a prenuptials

http://family.findlaw.com/marriage/marriage-agreements/prenup-pros-cons.html