Prenuptial Agreements

Protecting the future.In a nutshell, that is really what marital contracts -- either a prenuptial agreement, executed prior to marriage, or a postnuptial agreement, negotiated and signed after marriage -- are all about.Another important feature of such contracts is...

Former professional football star and hall-of-fame player Deion Sanders -- nicknamed Neon Deion and Prime Time -- openly cultivated and firmly grabbed headlines during his playing days. Now, in their aftermath, and despite his desire to strike a low-profile pose in at...

Today's high divorce rate. Economic security. Protection of assets. To negotiate what you want in a marital dissolution.These and a host of other well-considered rationales are what are frequently pointed to as being the eminently logical reasons for a couple to...

Here's a hypothetical. You're on the cusp of your Florida divorce and suddenly thinking back to that day just prior to your marriage when you and your spouse decided to execute a prenuptial agreement. It seemed like a good idea on a number of fronts, lending certainty...

They are not just for the rich and famous anymore, no, no -- prenuptial agreements are being found in more and more marriages these days, and their clauses are getting quite personal. Florida residents are probably familiar with the child custody clauses and have most...

Most people, especially in our day and age of media-driven celebrity tales of marital discord and divorce, are arguably familiar with the basics of a prenuptial agreement -- what it entails, why it is written and when it is executed.As for a postnuptial agreement, uh,...

"It gets very, very stressful," says a financial consultant in talking about written understandings and marital contracts that she advises a number of her clients to execute.The reason? A mobile society, with property sometimes being held in multiple states and...

Valentine's Day is one of the biggest days of the year for proposals, alongside Christmas, Thanksgiving and a couple other major holidays, with many couples deciding to tie the knot on the 14th and in February generally.One thing that makes sense for many Florida...

Once again, it is that specter of a prenuptial agreement in a high-profile, high-asset divorce case.Was one executed? If so, what did it protect? If not, what potential floodgates to wealth did it open for one of the spouses?Increasingly, and growing by the day,...

Concerning the Kardashian/Humphries divorce filing we just discussed in our immediately preceding blog post, it has been widely reported that the couple had a prenuptial agreement in place prior to taking their vows.As many sports commentators note, taking that...