More women are asking for prenups

Sun Sentinel ^ | September 18, 2005 | Georgia East

[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."

[Arpege92]

"This problem sure makes women from the other, more traditional countries, alot more optional as marriage material."

What countries might those be?

[DB]

Not all men on this site.

[dakine]

Need help...

[TheSpottedOwl]

Unfortunately in todays world, someone's word is not enough anymore, and would you enter a muli - BILLION contract with someone or some company just by their word ? without getting legal protection financially or legally ? In todays world, a Prenup is as prudent and important, as a will.

Oh, I agree. If my bf and I should decide to eventually marry, we are going to have to have a pre-nup, as he stands to inherit from his father. He has health problems, and is disabled. That money should go to his kids. It has to be done in such a way that his speed freak of an ex wife cannot get her hands on it. His sister is working on that angle : ) Not to mention my greedy brats looking for an extra dime : (

[taxed2death]

"......and with no thanks to the feminsit, and TV shows like Oprah."

I get a kick out of those "womens" channels like "O"...and "Lifetime". I call them the RAPE channels.....24 hour male bashing....nonstop. If there were a female equivalent of those channels, the feminazis would blast it from the airwaves within 24 hours.

[Farmer Dean]

It's never too late to say "Thanks but I think this not what I want."You should have run out of the courthouse like the place was on fire!Three marriages at age 17,in what state did this sad story happen?

[gitmogrunt]

"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."

Now that the skank has financial interests to protect she wants the pre-nup.

When pre-nups first came the skank-a-lanks, would get very mad at even the suggestion of pre-nups.

How the times have changed.

IMO you're an idiot if you marry later in life, after you've accumulated assests, without a pre-nup.

Skank-a-lank will clean you out,after she's had enough, if you don't think so you're a p*ssy whipped fool!

Thanks caipirabob for the use of the word skank-a-lank.

[SouthernFreebird]

What countries might those be?

The ones with the mail order brides willing to put up with a controlling bully for a time in order to get to America. That the men fail to see the selfish immorality of a woman willing to sell herself for a time to get where she wants to be is laughable.

The qualities they think they are avoiding in American women are what they are actually buying from the imports.

[HairOfTheDog]

I get a kick out of those "womens" channels like "O"...and "Lifetime". I call them the RAPE channels.....24 hour male bashing....nonstop

So no you know how FreeRepublic feels to a conservative woman.

Equal and opposite wrong.

[Sally'sConcerns]

Great attitude to have at times around here. Quite a few condemn us know matter what and in the long run, that's their problem and not mine.

[najida]

Yeah,
The absolutely creepiest wedding pictures I've ever seen were of a MOB and her new 'hubby' (a well known internet woman hater delux).

The whole reason these women WANT to come here ain't for the men. And they WILL get Westernized, unless they are under some type of home lock-down (gee, don't that sound familiar?)

[najida]

LOL!
Good job!

[Sally'sConcerns]

Geez! I think I'll go see what's on the boob tube and take a nap.

What I meant to say....

Great attitude to have at times around here! Quite a few condemn us no matter what and in the long run, that's their problem and not mine.

[YourAdHere]

Ah, but it never said it was her second marriage, it merely described her as a single mom.

[HairOfTheDog]

LOL! Good job!

Mine was a C+ tops, it had a typo in it...

Your comment about throwin' rocks at the gorillas, now that was ~good~ ;~D

[Nov3]

She wanted to protect her inheritance for her child. If this was a first marriage, I would agree, but with a second marriage you do owe something to protect and provide for your child, just in case you were blinded by lust, oops, I mean love.

Amen

[HairOfTheDog]

"It's not that I plan to get divorced," says Kaplan, 23, That's exactly what your doing, you little harpy.

There is nothing wrong with people taking precautions to protect what they have, even if they hope they never have use it.

I have gun for self-protection that I hope I never have to use also. By owning that gun, am I just hoping for a break-in?

[Arpege92]

My exact thoughts as well. I saw a program once about mail order Russian brides and it was pretty damn sad watching these men willingly allow themselves to buy love.

[HairOfTheDog]

Foreign mail order brides don't want what American ~men~ have, they want what American ~women~ have.