Comments on: The Best Answers to Frequently Raised Objections About Prenups

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:08:56 +0000

Question- I have been previously married. I’ve been divorced for quite some time and in that time attended college. I am currently with someone and the marrage topic keeps coming up. The issues is I had a terrible divorce and I don’t want it to happen again. My goal is to continue on to dental school to become a dentist, but I don’t want to get married and then if it doesn’t work out lose half of my dental practice to someone who didn’t work for it or have to pay outragous alimony to him either. Where I am not in dental school yet, or even have my own practice am I able to put that in a prenup? Things that may be in the future? Since losing alot of stuff in my last divorce, I don’t really want to get married again unless I know that I am not going to lose everything that I worked so hard for. I do not want to start all over again. Am I able to have something in the prenup that states what assets we each haveand updated it as more items are aquired? I am not very familiar with prenups.

By: Doreen Deiny

Doreen Deiny — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:06:09 +0000

I am 33. I married my husband when I was 18. I signed the agreement with pressure from his mom and assurance that it was fair. I didn’t tell my parents until after 7 years of marriage. My husband is cheating on me. We have a 7 year old daughter. I am trying to get a divorce and am most likely going to be screwed over because I was so nieve to sign the aggrement 15 years ago. My lawyer is not too sure we can fight it, because it will be costly. It is so unfair. I have not done anything to diserve this. What do you think I can do?

By: Tara Scheufler

Tara Scheufler — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:41:02 +0000

Remember that many people simply can’t sign any type of prenuptial agreements because of religious convictions. The Roman Catholic church, for example, considers that a marriage is “invalid” (i.e., never happened) if there are such agreements, because they presuppose the possibility of divorce. Believing that divorce is possible, in the eyes of the Catholic church, makes one attitudinally not oriented toward the idea of marriage itself – which 100 % vulnerability of everything you own, and yourself. It would be unfortunate for people who are religious to be overlooked as good marriage partners, when in fact they make (in general) the best marriage partners out there, and are the least likely to get divorced in the first place. Prenuptial agreements are for those who are “secular”, who don’t really practice religion, which is fine if that’s what someone wants. For the religious, prenuptial agreements do pose more spiritual and religious difficulties.