{"id":658,"date":"2017-04-20T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:02:17","slug":"protecting-assets-event-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/protecting-assets-event-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Assets in the Event of Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to protect your assets during marriage is to enter into a premarital agreement (also known as a prenuptial agreement or prenup) prior to getting married that details all the assets and liabilities of both parties prior to marriage and details each party\u2019s rights and obligations to the other\u2019s income earned during marriage.<\/p>\n<p>You might be thinking that a premarital agreement may cause strain on the marriage before it even begins so you instead plan to protect your assets by setting up separate bank accounts for your separate property and ensuring no community assets are ever commingled into the account during marriage. While this may seem like a suitable alternative, these measures may be insufficient to protect your fortune. Since interest accrued during the marriage, salary earned during the marriage, and cash dividends distributed the marriage will all be community property without a premarital agreement stating otherwise, a premarital agreement will often be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you ask your fianc\u00e9 to sign a premarital agreement without causing strain on the engagement? The answer lies in the actual terms of the premarital agreement. The words \u2018prenuptial agreement\u2019 are too often associated with misconceptions about one-sided deals with the non-monied spouse getting nothing. In reality, prenups are simply agreements to define the rights and obligations of couples who are about to marry. Additionally, the future spouse who is wealthier should know that the more one-sided the agreement, the more likely it is to be attacked upon divorce. As such, the wealthier future spouse has an incentive to make the agreement attractive to his or her fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/protecting-assets-event-divorce\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Protecting Your Assets in the Event of Divorce\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to protect your assets during marriage is to enter into a premarital agreement (also known as a prenuptial agreement or prenup) prior to getting married that details all the assets and liabilities of both parties prior to marriage and details each party\u2019s rights and obligations to the other\u2019s income earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-property","category-property-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Protecting Your Assets in the Event of Divorce &#8212; 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