Entering Into Marriage With Clear Rights and Responsibilities
Prenuptial agreements — and their close relatives, postnuptial agreements — enable couples to set the terms for their own marriages. If you are concerned about protecting your assets or your children's inheritances, a prenuptial agreement can be extremely helpful.
At the Diamond Law Firm, our Los Angeles prenuptial agreement attorneys are highly experienced at drafting, reviewing, negotiating, challenging and defending prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. To schedule a free consultation with one of our family law attorneys, contact us today.
Understanding Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
A prenuptial agreement — also known as a premarital or antenuptial agreement — is basically a contract that is signed between two parties before they get married. A validly drafted prenuptial agreement can override standard legal provisions and govern issues such as:
- Each party's rights to certain assets and types of income
- Each party's responsibilities for the other party's debts
- The spousal support, if any, that one party has to pay in case of divorce
A postnuptial agreement is basically the same thing as a prenuptial agreement, but it is adopted after the parties have gotten married. Properly drafted postnuptial agreements are also valid in California unless there is evidence of duress.
Challenging and Defending Agreements in Court
Even when a prenuptial agreement has been drafted correctly, it can still be challenged in a divorce case, either because one spouse claims he or she entered into it under duress or because circumstances have changed such that enforcing the agreement would be unjust.
To discuss how the Los Angeles prenuptial agreement attorneys at our firm can help you address any issue involving a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement, contact us today.
