Pre-Nuptial Agreements
Pre-Nuptial agreements have been popular features of aristocratic and Hollywood marriages for many years. They simply specify who owns what on the way into the marriage and who gets what on the way out.
With increasing material wealth, more families with two working partners, more divorce and higher numbers of blended families, these issues have become far more relevant to ordinary people in recent years.
Mix these issues with widespread concerns about the cost and effect of property settlement disputes and it's easy to see why many people, especially on second and subsequent marriages and relationships, want a higher degree of certainty in advance - often seeing it as a mature, adult strategy to help them stay together, rather than an anticipation of separation.
We urge people to think of pre-nuptial agreements the way they think of wills - unless you want others to clean up the mess you leave behind you, they need to be done - at least, unless your situation is crystal clear and you're sure that even the law won't interfere with it. (Note that you need legal advice to be sure of this).
Our Approach
We facilitate the parties' review of their situations, expectations and assets. We then prepare them for a civilised and comprehensive negotiation of the terms of their agreement, which we facilitate throughout.
During the process it is not in the least unusual for issues to arise that individual parties want to resolve. Sometimes these include quite profound relationship and commitment issues, that have never been raised before because there was never the right forum in which to raise them.
Our Solutionists, being trained problem solvers and mediators, can usually take this in their stride - turning it into another constructive item of value for the parties.
