Posted on 09/18/2005 3:05:48 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Over a casual dinner, Rachel Kaplan turned to her boyfriend and asked, "You're open for a prenup, right?"
Darren Waldohlz, 38, a partner in a successful speed-dating business, admits he was caught off guard. But he said he realized a prenuptial agreement would protect the house he owns, too.
"It's not that I plan to get divorced," says Kaplan, 23, a single mom from Fort Lauderdale, who has a sizable inheritance. "I have to protect myself and my daughter."
While men are still more likely to seek a prenup, "women are becoming a more dominant force," said attorney Alan Braverman, who has offices in Fort Lauderdale and Boynton Beach.
Experts attribute the change to women marrying later or more than once.
"It's not uncommon in today's world that women are entering marriages with assets and stock options," said matrimonial attorney Jacqueline Valdespino, in Coral Gables. "Now both sides have equal bargaining power."
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I think guys should keep their nups as long as they can. Once they're gone, they'll be doing the shopping, changing diapers, doing the laundry, dusting the fine china, cleaning the tub, and other assorted jobs.
Guys - HOLD ON TO YOUR NUPS - AND HOLD ON TIGHT!
Yikes! Thank God you found out before...
Puttin' all your made up BS out here...that's what I mean...
"So basically, you are saying that those women who cheat are justified, but, men who cheat are no good rats and dogs?"
Nope....that's just you pretending I said such a thing. Not once did I say that women who cheat are justified and men are dogs if they cheat.
I'm quite, quite sure that nobody here is defending feminism or aggressive career women. We don't like female pit bulls any better than you do. The trouble is, Vision, that these days a young woman can't sit at home doing needlepoint until some suitable young man of good family comes a-courting. She has no choice but to get out into the world and support herself. And if she is intelligent, talented, and competent, chances are good that she will be offered one promotion after another through the years. If she doesn't find someone in college, she may find herself unmarried as she gets into her thirties. It seems that somehow a woman who had to support herself is automatically considered a bitch by some male Freepers, and we women are not clear on how it is that a woman who has the self-respect to support herself and do well at it is therefore a bitch. Because, honestly, we are criticized if we stay home and have children, too.
One never knows. People and circumstances change. If one partner has a lot more money than the other, a prenup is simply good planning, along with any other kind of planning.
That's one of the advantages of marrying young and poor. :)
No idea how many marriages. The last I heard she had moved to New Orleans on Bourbon Street. That was back in about 1974.
I don't agree with your conclusions of law. What becomes community property in community property state, is what is generated from your personal services after you are married. I don't know if that can be reversed by a prenuptial agreement.
Well, always best to actually ask a lawyer, but my understanding is that the more you mix it into the marriage, the more community it becomes :~D
Amen to that Junior.
Yes indeedy. When my daughters were in their "stuck up" years I delighted in telling their friends, particularly their boy friends, how we lived in a slightly more upscale tent than the original for 6 months while raising some money to get better accomodations.
Supposedly I was "runing their life". LOL
Bourbon Street? Good grief.
Back off puppy, I'm one of those independant b!tches that America is full of. I don't much care for a man to tell me when I can open my mouth and speak.
I agree- if I got married again and had anything (or if he did) I wouldn't fight signing a prenup. I never ever dreamed I'd get divorced but it was not just up to me. Sadly, the other person in the equation did not have the same feelings so I am divorced.
That was a long time ago - but she (and I back then) did like fun.
Why buy a cow when milk's free.
Anyway, this is long since past being a soceity where it's wise to get married.
As marriage is not something that happens between two people.
Marriage is something that happens between two people and society.
And modern society is a lousy partner for one's marriage.
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