Write a prenuptial agreement and enter your marriage with eyes wide open.
Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms -- unless you create your own customized premarital agreement.
Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. This easy-to-read book covers:
- whether a prenup is right for your relationship
- how to decide what a prenup should include
- how to assemble a draft agreement
- how to turn your draft into a contract
- tips on negotiating and communicating
The new 3rd edition of
Prenuptial Agreements is completely revised and updated to reflect current state laws, plus worksheets are provided as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, as well as clauses for preparing an agreement that suits your unique needs.
How to Use This Book
Chapter 1. A Prenup Primer
Chapter 2. Is a Prenup Right for You?
Chapter 3. Deciding on the Specifics
Chapter 4. Understanding Your State's Law
Chapter 5. Assembling Your Draft Agreement: The Basics
Chapter 6. Additional Provisions for Your Prenup
Chapter 7. Turning Your Draft Into a Binding Agreement
Chapter 8. Working Together
Chapter 9. After You've Made a Prenup Appendixes
Index
Katherine E. Stoner is an attorney/mediator in private practice with the firm of Stoner, Welsh & Schmidt in Pacific Grove, California. In addition to mediation, her practice includes consulting attorney services for clients who are in mediation. Ms. Stoner is a Certified Family Law Specialist, who teaches community property at Monterey College of Law and is on the training staff of the Center for Mediation and Law in Mill Valley, California. She has lectured extensively on family law and mediation.
Shae Irving has been a Nolo author and editor since 1994, specializing in estate planning and family law issues. She has written or co-written numerous books and software. Irving graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and briefly practiced law at a large San Francisco firm before joining Nolo's editorial staff.
Format: 8.5x11" Softcover with CD
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-1-413307-15-3
Publisher: Nolo
