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Originally Posted by Boomer
A little advice to those single posters here from this long and happily married woman………
If you ever decide to get married at this point in life, I have one word for you — PRE-NUP!
Boomer
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Originally Posted by Velvet
Just a question, if you need a prenup why would you marry in the first place? Friendship can go a long way….
A very well off acquaintance turned down a 4 million dollar engagement ring because it wasn’t valuable enough. I am not sure what she actually wants. But if he leaves the common law relationship it starts at 65 million for him. (He can afford it.) I just can’t figure out why anybody would get involved with such a gold digger in the first place? And the guy involved is the son one one of my best friends. This is his third try towards marriage. Personally, I think marriage starts when each if you will give your life for the other person… but maybe that’s just me.
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I cannot imagine what a 4 million dollar engagement ring looked like. Seems like her arm would have had to be in a sling to help hold it up. Yes. That was a gold digger.
But to answer your question, my pre-nup comment had to do mostly with the lives of everyday people when they marry later in life.
Especially if each one has a couple of bucks and/or owns property on his/her own, it can be best to spell things out from the beginning.
This is often true when there are adult children who might not be accepting of a remarriage of a parent — either for concern about their own inheritance or concern about a potential gold digger.
With long marriages, there can be an accumulation of assets earned together over many years. Trust language could probably solve a lot of this “just in case” stuff while both are still alive. But I am not a lawyer.
Anyway, I am not being cynical with that advice, just practical. Establishing yours, mine, and ours before a marriage at an older age just makes sense to me. But I know others don’t see it like that.
Boomer