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[quote=Anonymous]Of course.  I would think that it could maybe protect her, to not be liable for the business in any way.  I would want to have a lawyer look at it before i signed, though.  All sorts of crap could be in there.

I would expect anyone who married me to sign a prenup, and I would happily sign a prenup.  I have a daughter, so I want to make sure that in the event of my death, that the assets I've worked for go to her.  I look at a prenup as similar to fire insurance - if you have a fire, it sucks that you have lost everything but at least the insurance allows you to rebuild and start over.  A divorce would suck and you'd mourn the loss of your husband the the life you had, but at least you'd walk out of the marriage with the stuff you had before the marriage, and you could start over without having to start over from square one.  Buying fire insurance doesn't say you expect a fire - it says you acknowledge that a fire could happen and you're prepared for it.  A prenup doesn't say you're expecting a divorce, but that you acknowledge the possibility and want to make things cleaner in that event.

Obviously the prenup would treat a 1-year quickie marriage differently than a 20-year marriage with shared children and property involved.  And in Virginia, which is a non-common property state, they do look at what each partner brought into the marriage, so a prenup might not even be necessary.[/quote]

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