Do Prenups actually protect you in a marriage?

[Apollo Creed]

or can they be tossed out?

Is there now way to create a legally binding agreement that if a divorce happens the agreed contract will go into effecf?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Like all legal agreements, they can't be entered-into if the parties are underaged, mentally incompetent, or if the contract is signed under duress.

'Under duress' is like a catch-all phrase for damned near anything you can imagine.

For instance: Day of the wedding, you pull out the prenup and demand your soon-to-be-spouse sign it. Pre-nup could be voided.​

 

[acuramdx]

Why get married if you think you're gonna need protection from your spouse?

 

[AlainLocke]

Is there now way to create a legally binding agreement that if a divorce happens the agreed contract will go into effect?

No.



http://nypost.com/2013/03/11/wife-o...estate-mogul-gets-judge-to-rip-up-her-prenup/
The beautiful wife of a millionaire Long Island real-estate mogul got a judge to rip up her prenup — a rare, precedent-setting decision that could influence countless marriages to wealthy people.

Elizabeth Petrakis, 39 — sometimes acting as her own lawyer — got a an appellate panel last month to toss the agreement she signed with Peter Petrakis, 41, four days before their lavish 1998 wedding.

The prenup stipulated that Peter, who parlayed a string of smoke shops into a $20 million commercial real-estate empire, would keep everything in his name if they split up.

But Elizabeth argued for seven years that Peter coerced her signature, threatening to call off the wedding even though her father had already paid $40,000 for the reception.

“He told me he would rip it up as soon as we had kids,” Elizabeth, who has since had twin sons and a daughter, told The Post at her Old Brookville mansion.

“But he never did. The reason this happened was I was an advocate for myself and I didn’t give up.’’

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Top 10 Reasons a Premarital Agreement May be Invalid - FindLaw
http://info.legalzoom.com/can-prenuptial-agreement-voided-26384.html

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Only way to avoid the fukkery is to avoid playing the game...

GMB...

 

[Apollo Creed]

Why get married if you think you're gonna need protection from your spouse?

Marriage is a business contract, who goes into business without protecting themselves?

 

[The BasedFather]

Why get married if you think you're gonna need protection from your spouse?

Divorce is a reality no matter how smooth you think the marriage will go and men 9/10 are the one getting fukked and everything taken. It's easy for you to have that mentality because you're a woman.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Divorce is a reality no matter how smooth you think the marriage will go and men 9/10 are the one getting fukked and everything taken. It's easy for you to have that mentality because you're a woman.

Logic isnt strong for some people.

 

[SoSoSlick]

Why get married?

Fixed.

 

[acuramdx]

Divorce is a reality no matter how smooth you think the marriage will go and men 9/10 are the one getting fukked and everything taken. It's easy for you to have that mentality because you're a woman.

Again, it all depends on how you view marriage. If you view marriage as a business contract then yeah sure, you need that pre nup. But why the hell are you getting married to someone you see as a business acquaintance, that alone sets you up for that divorce.

Just because some people view marriage like that, doesn't mean you have to. Marriage should be a bond of trust first and foremost, and if you think you cant trust the person to make the right decisions when needed, then you're not marrying the right person for you. The right person that loves you, will never do you wrong like that.

 

[Doobie Doo]

Prenups

That's your life before you pledged Kappa

 

[Apollo Creed]

Again, it all depends on how you view marriage. If you view marriage as a business contract then yeah sure, you need that pre nup. But why the hell are you getting married to someone you see as a business acquaintance, that alone sets you up for that divorce.

Just because some people view marriage like that, doesn't mean you have to. Marriage should be a bond of trust first and foremost, and if you think you cant trust the person to make the right decisions when needed, then you're not marrying the right person for you. The right person that loves you, will never do you wrong like that.

Marriage IS a business contract. If it wasnt then there would he no need for any of the legal things you have to do or the legal benefits you get. A wedding ceremony would be enough.

You say all this stuff as if women dont run straight to the legal system to get things from the person they are leaving. If it wasnt a business contract people would simply go their sepereate ways.

 

[Gold]

Again, it all depends on how you view marriage. If you view marriage as a business contract then yeah sure, you need that pre nup. But why the hell are you getting married to someone you see as a business acquaintance, that alone sets you up for that divorce.

Just because some people view marriage like that, doesn't mean you have to. Marriage should be a bond of trust first and foremost, and if you think you cant trust the person to make the right decisions when needed, then you're not marrying the right person for you. The right person that loves you, will never do you wrong like that.

It doesn't matter how you "view" marriage or what you think a marriage "should" be. Those are irrelevant.
The fact is that a marriage is a legally binding contact and the courts will see at as just that.

You do not need to marry someone to prove you love them.
You do not need to marry someone to have sex with them.
You do not need to marry someone to have a child with them.
If someone chooses to enter this contract, that's on them and all parties involved.

 

[acuramdx]

I understand the predicament that men are in when it comes to marriage. But as someone who was married before, and handled the divorce with dignity and respect for each other, it is possible.

The only 'legal' thing we had to do was send our papers / agreements to court to have it recognized. Again, the court only gets involved when 2 parties dont agree, if you think there is a chance that you might not be on the same page or be able to work together in case of a divorce, or if you think one party will become vengeful and petty, then dont get married. They're not the right person for you.

 

[The BasedFather]

Again, it all depends on how you view marriage. If you view marriage as a business contract then yeah sure, you need that pre nup. But why the hell are you getting married to someone you see as a business acquaintance, that alone sets you up for that divorce.

Just because some people view marriage like that, doesn't mean you have to. Marriage should be a bond of trust first and foremost, and if you think you cant trust the person to make the right decisions when needed, then you're not marrying the right person for you. The right person that loves you, will never do you wrong like that.

Marriage is a business no matter how you try to slice it. You're literally signing an agreement to become one. All your funds are shared, the house, kids...everything. Both men and women should think about the possibility of divorce and protecting themselves if it happens. Around 40-50 percent of people get divorced. Love is important, yes, but this isn't the old days. When you do business with a person there needs to be trust. Trust that that person will hold their end of the agreement.

You said a person who loves you will never do you wrong. If that's the case then divorce wouldn't exist. Why do women take everything from a man when they divorce them? You still love him even though you're at odds right? People kill each other over love. You'd never do that to someone you love, right? Love isn't a strong enough factor to keep marriages going because people cheat and claim they still love their spouse. You should go into a marriage with a business mindset in my opinion.

I'm not married though so what the hell do I know? :stealoff:

 

[Ashley Banks]

Why get married if you think you're gonna need protection from your spouse?

I used to wonder this but people change, you could marry a selfless wonderful woman but she could be a completely different person when you're divorcing her.