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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One case where a post-nup should be put in place is if the couple started out the nothing and one spouse helped the other spouse to achieve HNW. Whether is is something like putting spouse through law or medical school, or staying at home to take care of the kids, or spouse actually helped get other spouse up and running in their business. The support spouse needs to make sure he/she is taken care of if/when suddenly successful spouse decides they want a new life.[/quote]

You confuse net worth with income. A HNW couple will split the marital assets 50/50 upon divorce without any pre-nup or post-num needed.
Your example (supporting thru law/med school) speaks to the continued high INCOME which extends beyond the divorce and where the ex spouse may feel some ongoing entitlement.[/quote]

Exactly. Let’s say two people graduate from law school and get married. They both work as associates at a big law firm. Then the woman gets pregnant and has a kid and decides to quit or mommy track so that she can handle the childcare and her husband can prioritize his career. Husband makes partner. They get divorced. He now has twenty or so years of high earning that she enabled because she took care of the kids while he gunned for partner. She has no job or a much lower paying job. So she gets half the assets, but there aren’t a ton of assets yet because he just made partner. That’s a situation where I might want a post nup - I give up or mommy track my career to focus on the kids and that enables husband to gun for partner.

I’ve seen this happen multiple times. Woman mommy tracks and finds herself divorced and without a good career while husband flies off and makes tons of money she isn’t entitled to.[/quote]

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