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Divorce Lawyer Reveals 5 Questions To Ask Before You Marry
Forbes ^ | Oct 14, 2022 | Ginger Gentile

Posted on 10/15/2022 9:53:44 AM PDT by aquila48

Kelly Chang Rickert rose to TicTok fame by giving pithy advice so you don’t end up in her office asking her to litigate (or better yet, mediate) your divorce. Happily married herself, she reveals the top 5 questions you should ask before marriage so you don't end up divorced:

1. What is your credit score? (And ask to see recent credit report)

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2. Children

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3. Household chores

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4. Sex

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5. Health

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These questions are just the starting point. It is much better to have an awkward conversation now than having this conversation in front of your lawyer, or the judge in your case. Divorces and reveal embarrassing personal information, so if you cannot bring it up to your fiancé imagine how you will feel in a deposition.

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Great advice. One way or another find out the answer to those questions BEFORE you get married.

You can chime in with your experience.

1 posted on 10/15/2022 9:53:44 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Conservative or Liberal?


2 posted on 10/15/2022 9:55:53 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: aquila48

Never told her husband to be that she owed $80,000 in student loan debt. I was furious with her. In addition she didn’t tell him about some plastic surgery she had had and that a few year before they got married she was 100 pounds heavier than she was when they met. They are still married going on I think 15 years but it was a lot of things to keep from somebody and I’ll never forget it.


3 posted on 10/15/2022 9:57:14 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: aquila48

Not a word on religion nor religious upbringing of children. There are often conflicts after children because they didn’t discuss or agree on these before marriage.

Many find they suddenly care a whole lot about the issue after children come when they didn’t even think about it before.


4 posted on 10/15/2022 9:59:56 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Hildy

It’s not often you meet an attractive woman with a credit score over 650.

Fortunately, all that’s important is YOUR credit score.


5 posted on 10/15/2022 10:00:58 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: aquila48

Politics was not included?

I bet it’s one of the leading causes of divroce.


6 posted on 10/15/2022 10:01:17 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: aquila48

Interesting that the person’s credit score takes precedence over whether or not they want children.


7 posted on 10/15/2022 10:01:20 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: aquila48

Is your to-be mother-in-law fat?


8 posted on 10/15/2022 10:01:53 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: subterfuge

“Conservative or Liberal?”

conservative or leftist?

that should be the very fist compatibility issue ...


9 posted on 10/15/2022 10:02:19 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: Hildy
Are you referring to Kelly Chang Rickert?

Are you acquainted?

10 posted on 10/15/2022 10:02:40 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: aquila48

I suspect a number of couples, if confronting questions such as noted above, would find that they shouldn’t get married and have children together.

I know it’s not romantic to discuss such issues when you want to get married. But clearly there are many land mines in merging your life with someone else’s.


11 posted on 10/15/2022 10:03:08 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Better List:

1- Similar Values

2- True Friendship

3- Mutual Trust and Respect --- Those form the FOUNDATION

Without that Foundation the relationship can't survive the aspects that change over time, such as;

Understanding how to effectively communicate with your spouse,

Your sexual appetite,

Your other life interests.

12 posted on 10/15/2022 10:03:38 AM PDT by G Larry (Population Control means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
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To: aquila48

Idiotic questions.

They ought to be discouraging men getting married. A one sided contract where in almost all cases the financial burden is all on you. She can have you gone with no evidence and one phone call for made up reasons.

There is zero upside for a man to sign a marriage contract. Doesn’t stop infidelity. Til death do you part? Please. We’re at 50% divorce rate for 1st marriages, 66% for second marriages, and 75% for third marriages. Factor in 80% of divorces are filed by women. Now divorces can be filed for any reason, not actual valid fault reasons. No upside for men.

Don’t do it guys. Vagina isn’t worth it. Ask a few guys who have been married and divorced for an honest opinion.


13 posted on 10/15/2022 10:03:39 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

Sounds like simp talk.


14 posted on 10/15/2022 10:04:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: aquila48

1. What is your credit score? Very good

2. Children- sure but not too many

3. Household chores- I kept a clean house as a single dude

4. Sex- at least once a day

5. Health- i work out every single day


15 posted on 10/15/2022 10:06:48 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: aquila48

Religion should be number 1. Everything else probably follows that path.


16 posted on 10/15/2022 10:08:47 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

My husband would agree with you. His ex is STILL on the payroll (”child” support goes to age 21 here no questions asked) One year, three months, one day until the last of the three ages out.


17 posted on 10/15/2022 10:09:33 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: glennaro

Raising children is cheap. To be fair to the children, don’t have then unless you can support them and treat them to life-building experiences.


18 posted on 10/15/2022 10:09:47 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Secret Agent Man
They ought to be discouraging men getting married. A one sided contract where in almost all cases the financial burden is all on you. She can have you gone with no evidence and one phone call for made up reasons.

There you go, opposing God’s plan and design for mankind, yet again.

And they are not idiotic questions. If they were addressed BEFORE the marriage, there would likely be a lot fewer messy divorces.

Your hatred of women is blinding you to the common sense in this advice.

19 posted on 10/15/2022 10:11:19 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: aquila48

My credit score stunk at the time. She married me anyway.

The rest was based on both of us being rooted in traditional Catholicism (e.g. God determines how many children we have, husband is primary provider/wife is primary home-maker)


20 posted on 10/15/2022 10:16:42 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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