Many people across the country have changed their minds about so-called marital contracts in recent years, now fully appreciating their strong utility as planning devices for both soon-to-be and already married partners. Increasingly more fiancés and spouses...
Prenuptial Agreements
True love calls: Now what about those student loans?
When love is in the air, young couples in Georgia and everywhere else across the country tend to follow its sweet song. That song can indeed be riveting, in fact, so compelling that it blocks out thoughts of everything save romantic ardor and getting that marriage...
Lifestyle clauses in marital contracts: Are they enforceable?
As big of a deal as marital agreements generally seemed to be even a few short years ago, such contracts are much more common -- if not exactly commonplace -- in Georgia and throughout the rest of the country these days. A marital contract is most typically understood...
The benefits of a post-nuptial agreement
Many people are familiar with the prenuptial agreement, but post-nuptial agreements are becoming increasingly common and important. Stay-at-home parents in particular can benefit from these types of agreements, which are very similar to prenups except they are drawn...
Marriage commentary: Cool the ardor, focus on practicalities
Most Georgia residents and people elsewhere across the country are well accustomed to perusing, negotiating and executing agreements across a wide spectrum of matters. Indeed, many of us expect and insist upon it, not wanting to be shortchanged down the road or...
A key cog to ensure an airtight prenup: proven legal help
OK, you finally got around to signing that contract a few of your friends were constantly reminding you about. It wasn’t that bad -- an online boilerplate document entitled “Prenuptial Agreement” that you and the soon-to-be spouse ran through in...
Survey says: Improved economy spurs growing interest in prenups
Plenty of anecdotal evidence indicates that people in bygone years and decades rued ever bringing up the topic of a marital contract with their soon-to-be spouse or just-married partner. For years, media stories regularly trashed the idea of a couple executing a...
Skeletons in the closet: talking finances fefore marriage
You obviously share a great amount of personal and intimate information prior to marriage with the person you intend to spend the rest of your life with. Here’s something you might have missed and that a recent article in The Wall Street Journal reminds you to...
Postnuptial agreements gaining favor in many high-asset divorces
In recent years, marital contracts have emerged with greater clarity in the American divorce landscape in Georgia and nationally, with both prenuptial agreements and, to a lesser degree, post-nuptial agreements being increasingly recognized as instruments that can...
Prenuptial agreements: a boon to many marriages, not a bane
If you’re a rising business entrepreneur or an already established business owner running a profitable enterprise who is soon to be heading down the aisle and entering a life of wedlock, you wouldn’t be adversely unusual thinking about a prenuptial...

