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Postnuptial Agreements for Business Owners and High-Asset Spouses in Illinois

An Illinois postnuptial agreement for a business owner settles one question in advance: if the marriage ends, what happens to the business? Today that answer is spread across sever...

Postnuptial Agreements for Stay-at-Home Spouses in Illinois: Protecting What You Built Together

You stepped back from your career to raise your family, support your spouse’s business, or run the household. Much of what the family built rests on that work. It may not show up o...

Don't Sign It and Forget It: Why It's Important to Refresh Your Prenuptial Agreement

Impact of Prenuptial Agreements in High-Income Divorce

When two people with substantial assets decide to marry, a prenuptial agreement is one of the most thoughtful conversations they can have together. It is a chance to talk openly ab...

What Mothers Should Consider Before Signing a Postnuptial Agreement

Postnuptial agreements, created after marriage, can address financial changes and enhance trust. It's crucial for couples, especially mothers, to understand their implications for...

When Should a Prenup Be Revisited? Lessons From Litigation

One often overlooked aspect of getting a prenup is that it is “set it and forget it.” That’s not necessarily true. While a well-drafted prenup generally withstands changes in circu...

What Can and Can’t Be Included in a Prenuptial Agreement?

If you’re considering a prenuptial agreement, you’re likely looking for a way to protect yourself and the life you’ve worked hard to build as you enter marriage. After all, no one...

How to Challenge a Prenuptial Agreement in Illinois

If you are facing divorce in Illinois and have a prenuptial agreement you no longer want to be bound by, you are asking one of the most difficult questions in family law. The prenu...

What an Illinois Prenuptial Agreement Can and Cannot Cover

If you are considering a prenuptial agreement, you are probably not looking for a broad definition. You want to know whether it can protect the business you built, the inheritance...

Cohabitation Agreements – Safeguarding Wealth Before You Move In

Learn how cohabitation agreements protect property, finances, businesses, and support rights for unmarried couples living together in Ontario.

What the prenuptial agreement process can say about a relationship

Prenuptial Agreements Are Not Always a Bad Sign Many people think of a prenuptial agreement as something negative. They assume… The post What the prenuptial agreement process can s...

Warning: The Wording in Your Prenuptial Agreement is Critical

Key Takeaways In Illinois, two words in a prenup can decide whether a spouse pays temporary maintenance during the divorce. The Woodrum case turned on the difference between waivin...

The Illinois Prenuptial Agreement Process: How to Draft One That Holds Up in Court

Everyone who has ever considered marriage in Illinois has heard the advice: get a prenuptial agreement. Almost no one explains what separates an Illinois prenuptial agreement that...

Did Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Sign a Pre-nup? What Ontario Couples Should Know Before Marriage

Do both of you understand what marriage will mean for their financial future? That is a question worth asking long before the wedding day.

Are Prenups the New 401(k)? Why Business Owners Should Consider Providing Prenup Benefits to Their Employees

Employee Benefits During Times of Financial Stress If you have ever taken a vacation with paid time off, received an employer-matched contribution to your retirement account, or be...

Protecting assets in a blended family?

The hope is married asap, but my partner is still finalizing divorce in Germany. It’s finalized in the US already. We’re looking at buying a home with an SCI now, too.

Trusts in Divorce: When Asset Protection Strategies Collide with Equitable Distribution

New York State is Set to Impose New Requirements for Separation Agreements

How Are Millennial Prenuptial Agreements Different?

From our experience as Chicago family law attorneys, prenuptial agreements between or involving millennials look different than prenuptial agreements from earlier generations. Mill...

My Fiancé Wants Me to Sign a Prenup. What If It’s Not Fair?

Don’t rush through this — it deserves care, attention, and a good lawyer.

Protecting assets in a blended family?

Blood is stronger than having a non married partner here, partners get nothing unless they financed part of the property and can prove it on paper. My old neighbours got married af...

More Americans Are Getting Prenups, Even If They Aren't Rich

Women are asking for them as often as men.

Navigating State-Only QTIP Trusts in Decoupled States

Planning challenges and opportunities for married couples

Navigating State-Only QTIP Trusts in Decoupled States

Planning challenges and opportunities for married couples