What do you think about pre-nup agreements?

Answer 1

I think that the person who asks for it...is basically saying hey this relationship won't work out so when it fails your not getting anything that is mine

Answer 2

A pre-nup is usually one sided. I really don't see anything wrong with it as long as you agree to the terms. A friend of mine sold her house, and furniture then the guy asked her to sign the prenup - that is wrong. If you are going to sign it make sure that you protect yourself. Like if it lasts less than a year - 0 - if more than a year so much - five years and so forth. It would be terrible to sign a prenup and stay married for 10 or more years and then find yourself in the cold.

Make the right decission for you - I don't look at it as expecting the marrage to fail, if I had worked hard for something I'd want to protect myself.

Answer 3

At the risk of taking all the romance out of marriage, it has to be looked at financially. It is a fact that one of every two marriages end in divorce. Not exactly a sure thing. Every soon to be married couple think they're the exception and it would never happen to them. I wouldn't get married without one; why take the risk? If the marriage works like we (the people getting married) think it will, there's no downside to having it. If we end up like half of the population that gets divorced, our assets are protected.

Answer 4

i have no problem with pre-nups. you are suppose to be getting married because this is the person you love and want to spend your life with, not because if you get divorced you want something they had before you were ever married.

Answer 5

I believe that if one or both persons is well-off or RICH before the wedding, it just might be necessary. While it's nice to uphold the ideal thought of, "this will be for forever, we will never be divorced", look at the statistics. I think it's important to be realistic; not everyone has their happily-ever-after anymore.
It sure would be a shame to work your whole life to gain the things you have, only to have them taken by your spouse after a divorce. I think it's the safer route to save a lot of damage at the end of the relationship, if it comes to that.

Answer 6

I think that people have the potential to be greedy, mean, and/or vengeful. It's sad, but true. So, if you have assets to protect, I can understand the need/want for one. My husband and I personally don't have one, but then again everything we have we built together.

But, I think if you really love someone, and they feel a little insecure (as people do), signing a prenup is a nice way to say, "All I want out of this marriage is you:)"

Answer 7

totally against them, no reason at all to have a pre-nup... should not get married then... if you think there should be a pre-nup... good luck =)

Answer 8

My husband offered to put one together (I have some assets that he thought needed protecting). I told him no, because I wasn't going to go into our marriage with the expectation that it would fail.

And if it turns out that we break up and he changes from the wonderful, loving man that I married into a right bastard who would try to cheat me out of things and that I had to "protect myself" from, well, then consider it an object lesson for me.

Answer 9

To each its own! If both parties are okay with it, than do you! However, if your like me and don't believe in them-than don't do it. Don't start compromising your needs before the marriage even begans. Because it will sure come back to haunt you.and show up in many other aspects of your relationship.

Answer 10

I think good fair ones can be made when one or both parties have significant assets they want to protect at the beginning of a marriage for themselves or their families..