Protect Your Kids and Your Love with a Prenuptial

You've given your children support, investing your time and money in their successes, and you want the best for their future. They've chosen a spouse and plan to marry - why not protect them with a prenuptial from whatever the future might be?

Parents might provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to their children over their lifetimes. A big-ticket gift could be the down-payment for a child's first house, an amount parents could have scrimped and saved for years. You can take a few simple steps to protect everyone involved from unforeseen circumstances, and preserve the value of your investment in your kids even after they marry. If your child makes a bad decision and winds up needing to separate from their selected partner after too few years, you'll be able to ensure that your substantial support is not wasted on a poorly chosen spouse.

Consider too, the value of your business, a business you might have involved your children in from the first day they could balance a checkbook or load a truck. Their stake in your family's business becomes community property at the time of marriage without a prenuptial agreement.

Your children will always depend on you to levy the experience of your years to help guide their judgment. You know that the responsibilities of finances and property can wear down a couple, and if you could help eschew that burden, wouldn't you? A prenuptial agreement puts the value of your child's new marriage into perspective. Remove some of the hazard of interpersonal squabbling over the value of each partner's contribution to the relationship, and instead help them focus on the relationship itself.