Prenuptial Agreements

When couples get engaged to be married, most are caught up in a flurry of activity planning the wedding. Newly engaged Texas couples focus so much on the big day that they aren’t always able to give a lot of thought to anything else. However, there are other things to...

Expand the scope of your wedding planning to life events beyond the romance of the nuptials. You may want to consider discussing what happens should the marriage not live up to expectations and you wind up divorced. Discussion of a premarital or prenuptial agreement...

Many couples who are engaged to be married are thinking about the what ifs around ‘til death do they part. It’s doubtful that any Texas couples stand in front of a priest, minister or justice of the peace believing their marriage will end in divorce. However, to be on...

If you have a prenuptial agreement, you are far from alone. In fact, according to reporting from Money Under 30, family law attorneys have seen a 62% spike in the number of prenup requests recently. Still, depending on what your agreement says, you may not be entirely...

There is so much planning to do before a wedding. A couple getting married in Texas is often caught up in finding a wedding venue, music, making a guest list, finding an officiant and all the other things associated with getting married. But most couples don’t stop to...

Even though you intended for your marriage to last forever, you and your spouse executed a prenuptial agreement before you walked down the aisle. This agreement probably outlines what happens to your assets in the event of a divorce. According to Suze Orman, a...

When a soon-to-be wife or husband insists on a certain amount of financial protection before getting married, it could come as a surprise to his or her partner. It’s not always easy to broach the subject of prenuptial agreements, but more couples in Texas are deciding...

More couples are looking to safeguard their marriages financially. Although it doesn’t sound very romantic, it might be one of the most loving things soon-to-be spouses and married couples in Texas can do for each other. Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements (prenups...

Before you marry, you may wish to draft a prenuptial agreement. Perhaps you know you will be coming into a lot of wealth and you do not want to lose much of it in a divorce. With a prenuptial agreement, you may designate this future income as separate property so a...

Most engaged couples are so wrapped up in each other and in planning their weddings that they don’t give pause to the what-ifs. Many Texas couples still don’t give consideration to prenuptial agreements for a few different reasons, such as they view it as being...