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[quote=Anonymous]Unless someone is entering into a marriage with large assets, there is little validity of pre-nup in most states. You can of course con a spouse to give away all of their rights but that won't hold in court.

A prenuptial agreement is mainly there to ensure that the assets you acquired before your marriage remain separate from marital assets, not assets acquired during marriage. Wouldn't this be unfair and unacceptable to the other party to sign off their legal rights? Most courts throw away such contracts.

If people are marrying young, they usually build their lives together and aren't coming with assets or children etc to complicate things.By raising an unnecessary prenup argument, you are basically telling them that this person is not trustworthy and this marriage is temporary. You can't use buying life insurance while not wanting to die argument because this is a completely different situation and it often creates a rift even before wedding wows are said.

If you don't trust someone to be fair or wish to be fair to them, don't marry them. Pre-nups are for people already rich or previously divorced with children to protect themselves, not for people starting and building together.

If you have money to leave kids an inheritance, put it in a trust so its not part of negotiations in case of a divorce but don't try to dictate and taint their marriage even before wedding.

Major issue after divorce is custody of kids, child support and alimony which can't be fairly decided in a prenup, any semi decent attorney would tear it apart in front of a court.
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