Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract

by Katherine Stoner, Shae Irving

Overview

Write a prenuptial agreement and enter your marriage with eyes wide open.

 

Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms — unless you create your own customized premarital agreement.

 

Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. This easy-to-read book covers:
. whether a prenup is right for your relationship

. how to decide what a prenup should include
. how to assemble a draft agreement
. how to turn your draft into a contract
. tips on negotiating and communicating

 

The new edition of Prenuptial Agreements is completely revised and updated to reflect current state laws, plus worksheets and clauses for preparing an agreement that suits your unique needs.

 

- Download forms for book on nolo.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781413316308
Publisher:	NOLO
Publication date:	09/28/2012
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Katherine E. Stoner is an attorney/mediator in private practice with the firm of Stoner, Welsh & Schmidt in Pacific Grove, California. In addition to mediation, her practice includes consulting attorney services for clients who are in mediation. Ms. Stoner is a Certified Family Law Specialist, who teaches community property at Monterey College of Law and is on the training staff of the Center for Mediation and Law in Mill Valley, California. She has lectured extensively on family law and mediation and has been interviewed by major media including NBC's Today Show.

Shae Irving has helped create both books and software, including Living Wills and Powers of Attorney for California, and the bestselling Quicken WillMaker Plus estate planning software. Irving graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and briefly practiced law at a large San Francisco firm before joining Nolo's editorial staff.

Table of Contents

Your Prenup Companion

1.      A Prenup Primer

2.      Is a Prenup Right for You?

3.      Deciding on the Specifics

4.      Understanding Your State’s Law

5.      Assembling Your Draft Agreement: The Basics

6.      Additional Provisions for Your Prenup

7.      Turning Your Draft Into a Binding Agreement     

8.      Working Together

9.      After You’ve Made a Prenup

Appendixes

A How to Use the Forms     

B Worksheets           

C Clauses for Building Your Prenup          

Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"An excellent gift for any starry-eyed couple, this guide approached the contract of marriage clearly and thoroughly" . Reference & Research Book News 

Editorial Reviews

A comprehensive and well-written guide that will greatly help couples—and lawyers—in drafting prenuptial agreements.” Stuart Walzer, family law attorney & author

“An excellent gift for any starry-eyed couple …” Reference & Research Book News

"Approximately 50% of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which the state you live in dictates the terms of a divorce — unless a couple create their own customized premarital agreement. Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, this newly updated and expanded fifth edition of "Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract" makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. Thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, "Prenuptial Agreements" is an easy-to-use guide that covers: Whether a prenup is right for your relationship; How to decide what a prenup should include; How to deal with special situations, such as one spouse's debts, business ownership, or kids from a previous marriage; How to assemble a draft agreement; How to turn your draft into a contract; and even offers tips on negotiating and communicating. This current edition of "Prenuptial Agreements" reflects current state laws, plus worksheets and clauses for preparing an agreement that suits the unique needs of anyone contemplating getting married and desirous of the protection that a prenuptial agreement can provide. Simply stated, "Prenuptial Agreements" should be a part of every community library collection." The Midwest Book Review, James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief

From the Publisher