Prenuptial agreements can help to separate business and personal assets as well as debts from the marital property pot. For example, if you and your spouse bring separate student loan debt into a marriage, you can create a prenup that will exclude those debts from marital property, meaning that each party would be responsible for the debt they brought into the marriage should the marriage end.

Prenuptial agreements are a great way to help a couple define boundaries between marital property and separate, personal property or debt. Prenuptial agreements are only effective if the court accepts them as valid, so it is important to have an experienced family law attorney help you with yours.

• Disagreements and misunderstandings regarding money are a leading cause of divorce. If you identify and work through basic issues of financial responsibility before you marry, you and your fianc? will then be able to focus on the other aspects of your relationship.
• A prenup can preserve your estate for your children, grandchildren, or loved ones.
• If you and your spouse bring significantly different personal estates or incomes to your marriage, you may want to keep your personal and community property separate.
• One of you may be a student, a homemaker, or contributing to the other?s business and may want a clear statement of the value of your contribution.
• A prenup can protect children from a previous marriage.
• A prenup can provide partners, members, or shareholders in a closely-held business with the control necessary to manage the business in the event of death or disability.
• A prenup can define limits to the amount and duration of alimony, otherwise known as spousal support.
• A prenup can establish the terms of a domestic partnership agreement for those who do not enter into marriage.

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