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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have assets at marriage, do a pre-nup agreement for sure.

My ex and I had no assets to speak of in our early 20s but I had gone to a girls HS where typing was a required class "in case your husband divorces you". I temped when his mom watched our babies and typed 120wpm to actually keep the lights on while he went to very important neurosurgeon lawyer astronaut school.

Our rent was $900 and I brought in like $1400 a month while he accumulated debt. I drove a 1980 car to my job that leaked oil. Our electric bill was like $89 at the time and I know because I kept meticulous records.

I clipped coupons from circulars like Edward Scissorhands and we lived on ramen stews with reduced price vegetables. There was no money for hobbies so sometimes I woke up at 4am on a Sunday if he was home and went to dumpster dive behind Joanne's. Find enough unpaired knitting needles and eventually you can pair them. I unraveled enough old sweaters to re-knit them in different forms for our kids. I shopped at Savers and Salvation Army for the kids clothes.

We didn't even think of a pre-nup at the time.

Now he's kind of screwed because we didn't have one.

I'm not screwed, though, I got paid.

If you have assets to bring to a marriage, get a pre-nuptial at least that says you get to take back the value of what you brought to the marriage.

In most marriages where there is serious financial success, it eventually becomes an issue whether or not you think it will.

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It seems though that your story backs the no prenup idea. Imagine your husband asked to sign it revoking all his future earnings . You would have gotten nothing after many years of living in poverty supporting him through the law school [/quote]

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