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Having said that, a number of states still don't recognized postnups and even when they do, postnups are challenged and invalidated much more frequently than prenups.

Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011

Having said that, a number of states still don't recognized postnups and even when they do, postnups are challenged and invalidated much more frequently than prenups.

Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011

By negotiating a postnuptial agreement, one party will typically be giving up some of those rights and that's why postnups will usually be held to a higher standard of fairness than prenups on the theory that individuals have less bargaining power once married.

Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011

By negotiating a postnuptial agreement, one party will typically be giving up some of those rights and that's why postnups will usually be held to a higher standard of fairness than prenups on the theory that individuals have less bargaining power once married.

Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011

Now that spouses can share each other's $5 million exclusion amount--either through lifetime gifts or bequests--some couples may also choose to cover how these amounts will be applied, in prenups or postnups.

Estate Planning For Two 2011

Partnership law, prenus, postnups, and contract law should be used.

Reinke Faces Life 2010

There is no logic to the distinction that postnups are binding but prenups are not; I know of cases where unless a wife signs a postnup, the husband files for divorce.

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(the same judges) held that postnups are, in effect, binding but prenups are not, passing the buck to the Law Commission, which is due to report on the subject this year.

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