Beavers Law, P.C.
710 Denbigh Blvd
Suite 2E
Newport News, VA 23608
ph: 757-234-4650
fax: 757-234-4734
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A pre-nup is a documented agreement about how your assets will be divided if the marriage ends.
We’ve all heard of couples who have a prenuptial agreement to deal with inherited wealth, but we probably think a prenup is only for a situation where one spouse is wealthy and the other spouse does not own as much.
Wealth is not the only criteria for creating a prenup.
Another situation where you might want a prenup is when this is not the first marriage for either or both of the spouses, especially if there are children of a previous marriage. People often want to ensure that the resources they have gathered prior to this marriage are going to be used for their biological children in the situation where their marriage to someone who is not the other parent of those children comes to an end. A good estate plan, often including a Revocable Living Trust, can assist with the distribution of assets, but an estate plan often comes into play only after someone’s death, and not when a marriage ends in divorce.
Age is another factor to be considered because future earning power often becomes limited due to a much shorter remaining life span. For example, someone in their twenties has over forty years to earn sufficient funds to support their lifestyle, while the earning lifespan for someone in their forties or fifties is very much reduced.
Also, it is less likely that someone in their twenties will have established a large retirement fund while it is more likely that someone past the age of fifty has at least started to fund a retirement plan.
In addition, it is always a good idea to think about how a partnership will end while the people still like each other. We usually suggest that people draft an agreement about how to end a business while they are drafting the business organizational documents. It is the same with a marriage.
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Beavers Law, P.C.
710 Denbigh Blvd
Suite 2E
Newport News, VA 23608
ph: 757-234-4650
fax: 757-234-4734
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