You may have heard the case of Elizabeth Petrakis, the woman who got her prenup thrown out.
Here is the full story as a reminder: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/n-y-prenup-battle-winner-destroyed-family-with-affair-cousin-says/
This woman meets a successful millionaire who's built his own fortune through his life's own hard work and investments in real estate.
She wants to marry, being a smart guy he naturally is wary that she could be after his money. She doesn't want to sign a prenup, but he says there is no way they are getting married with out one, so she reluctantly agrees.
Well, come several kids later, she hits the wall and wants a divorce. She claims the prenup is the reason for their marriage falling apart, even though she never was forced into it. She could have always refused the marriage and refused the prenup. But those were his conditions and she accepted it.
Well it turns out she was full of shit. She was cheating on her husband with her cousin's husband. When her cousin comes out against her with this, she has no option but to admit to it. But she still insists her affair wasn't the reason for the marriage falling apart, oh no, she still insists it was the pre-nup.
Here's the real kicker:
She tells the judge that her husband had promised her he would get rid of the prenup after they had children. That's what she says, that he made an oral agreement with her. She has no proof of this promise or this oral agreement, its just his word against hers.
Well the judge believes her, and throws out the prenup, and now she is entitled to half his money, even after she cheated on him, even after he thought he was safe by signing a prenup.
Remember guys, not even a prenuptial agreement can protect you. Marriage can and will destroy you, there is absolutely no point.
Be careful in even entering a de facto marriage before you live. In some countries, being in a LTR with someone where you move in together and live together for some time as de factos can still grant the ex-partner your assets should you break up.
AWALT.
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I know my ex loves it because that's what I pay her every year. She works as a secretary 6 hours a day even though she's perfectly healthy and has a masters degree. There is no incentive for her to even try to do better. Now she has a boyfriend who she's already told she'll never marry because she'd have to give up my contractually obligated money on the hope that he won't leave her.
Never get married.
Completely agree. The enjoyment a women may give you is not worth having your life destroyed.
I think one of the main problems is women have no more use for us, besides resource, once they bear children. What's true in the animal kingdom is true of us. We no longer need to be around to provide them comfort or enjoyment. Their children now fill whatever void they had initially (which was the instinct to bear children). Once that happens, we're a bank account. Nothing more.
I feel horrible for this man. Everything he has ever worked for is gone. Is this the equality women want? Is it equal to take everything from your spouse or ex? Our society believes so.
If marriage ever comes up, just keep pushing her off until she finds someone else to trap, which she inevitably will if she can't get what she wants out of you. Or simply walk away. Then go eat. Go masturbate. In a few days, you won't care, and there will be such a weight lifted from you. The feeling you get when all the guilt and drama she's piled on you for not marrying her lifts and fades away is far better than any feeling you'll ever get from sex.
All you have to do is walk away. Don't agree to anything. Don't give in. And don't feel bad. She'll rope somebody else. She'll be fine. You're just the guy she has her sights set on right now.
If only this guy had listened to his instincts.
Bro I will beat my dick til it scabs up after reading this. I'll go get the clap from a hooker, FUCK THAT NOISE. Damn man.
Can't you just move countries in cases like these?
Sure, if I want to abandon my kids and never see them again.
I made my bed and I'll lie in it, but the system is fucked up. I have no motivation to improve myself financially because she can come after me for more money and she has no motivation to improve herself financially because she'll get less money from me that she doesn't have to do any work for.
I feel like this is the kind of thing that leads to an episode of 60 minutes.
I was thinking "When Women Kill" type shows.
Younger men here don't realize the heavy burden those of us who found TRP late pay:
It's not really the money. I could live under a tarp and eat wild berries and make a comeback.
It's the kids. It's really great if you have them to actually live with them
exactly! I'm paying for being stupid but I have great kids and really enjoy the time I have with them.
I just hope others see this and my other comments and learn to protect and think of themselves first.
Divorce => race to the bottom.
Wait what exactly do you pay her? Sorry for asking, I'm just wondering what this looks like.
And what % of your salary is she sucking out of you?
$24,000 a year in alimony + child support (minimal bc of the amount of alimony she gets). 25% of my salary.
Can you not get a lawyer to try to make alimony payments only increase with rate of inflation, not with your own income? You are no longer in a partnership so any future success cannot be claimed by her at least in my understanding.
The good news is that she has a lot of hoops she'd have to go through to get an increase in alimony. The simple fact that I got extra money from somewhere would not be enough. She has to prove a "significant change in circumstance."
The problem is that there is no real definition of "significant". The judge gets to decide what is significant. What she could claim is that her standard of living suffered after the divorce and now I have the income to support that standard of living, therefore, a significant change in circumstance has occurred. A judge just might buy it depending on his mood that day.
When a divorce agreement is negotiated you can make alimony either modifiable or non-modifiable. If it's non-modifiable, she can't come after me for increases, but she gets to keep getting paid even if she remarries. If it's modifiable, she can come after me for more, but I can go after a reduction or removal of alimony if she gets a better job, gets an inheritance, etc.
That's understandable, then. How often do you see your kids?
They're with me 50% of the time. The ex and I alternate weeks. That was the one non-negotiable thing for me.
You'd have to change names too, because there are plenty of international agreements for coercing you to pay child support and alimony. Like this.
That is absolute horseshit.
Although, you could just go to one of the grey countries.
Jesus...what a fucking shit show. Part of me would just want to leave the country. Even if I had to live illegally and in poverty away from my kids...fuck that bitch.
If she gets divorced a second time, does she get twice the alimony?
As he stated, if she gets married again his alimony is forfeit.
If she then divorces the next husband, then yes, she would possibly get it from that guy.
Not from two guys at the same time.
"What do you mean you dont want to marry me?! I know we love each other and marriage is not necessary to show that, but marriage is about so much more than money. It is about showing someone you love them and committing to them. I will leave you if you do not marry me."
"I cant marry you as i will lose the alimony from my previous marriage, but we can just be long term boyfriend and girlfriend OK?"
How much of a beta bucks do you have to be to agree to that situation?!? I get a good laugh every time I see him and think about the shit he puts up with.
I'm surprised that she's working at all. Sorry that happened to you.
She has to. She can't support her shopping habits on my alimony alone. Thank you.
Even with the new minimum wage proposal of $15/hour. A full time worker makes about $20k after taxes etc. Not exactly a comfortable lifestyle in most parts of the country.
This is exactly the risk every man takes in a marriage, and i don't know why few people can see it or it's considered misogynistic to bring it up. You got married, therefore you put a portion of your paycheck on the line in the hopes that she wouldn't leave you. She's in exactly the same situation, and she's choosing not to get married!
Wow good point, that's like a woman being a man's situation for marriage, and saying NO!
The major mistake here was that the pre-nup was signed only days before the wedding. As we know, the legal/political system treats women like defenseless victims with no agency so her lawyer argued that she was "coerced" into signing the prenup.
In previous prenup discussions on this subreddit, some lawyers stated that you should have the prenup signed well in advance of the wedding. Ideally, you should not even agree to marriage until the document is signed. The wedding should be scheduled after the prenup is executed. If you keep documents for when you scheduled the venue etc., this can be easily proved.
It's also a good idea to make sure that the wife has her own legal counsel. That way no one can make the argument that she was somehow duped.
I love how people insist that prenups protect your assets, as long as you do it correctly. But that's like saying climbing the Everest is perfectly safe, as long as you have the right equipment and preparation. You can always analyze a case that didn't go well, and point to the things people should have done differently. What makes prenups and climbing the Everest so dangerous is precisely the fact that there are many, many ways things can go wrong, and even hired professionals get it wrong sometimes.
This millionaire wasn't an idiot, he had enough money to hire a very good lawyer, and thought he was getting very good legal advice. But it failed, and even if we can now deconstruct it and explain why it failed, that does not make prenups any less dangerous.
You're right that prenups are dangerous though, because it provides a false sense of security. They're the illusion that marriage can ever be a safe proposition for men.
Can he sue the attorney that did the prenup for him? I'm sure the attorney presented it as a document that protected his money and that didn't end up happening.
You wish! Suing an attorney is harder than suing a cop who mistreated you. Courts won't allow it for at least the practical reason of avoiding an unending flow of countersuits. But even if you could find an exception, who runs the show? You'll agree it would be unwise to resolve a dispute with a plumber by challenging him to a plumbing contest.
If the attorney followed the rules and did his professional best, he is not liable for an arbitrary or biased judge, that's for a court of appeals to resolve.
Not sure what country you're from but here in Australia (which is a common law country), legal advocates are immune from being sued for negligence. I believe in the UK it's possible in some cases, not sure about the US though.
Prenups are a prophylactic measure; like a condom, they work most of the time but can break with tragic results. This example demonstrates how everything was done incorrectly when negotiating a prenup. As soon as the woman puts up too much resistance to the prenup, the wedding is off. PERIOD!
I advise my clients that the prenup is the starting point of divorce negotiations. Prenups are just the first line of defense. If you get married and have money, your life will revolve around the prenup and the money. I kid you not! I wrote a solid prenup and postnup for a friend and his wife, every time we hung out, she would mention the fact that she could not get to his money. She made a play, lost, and they are still together. The prenup & postnup saved his marriage, for whatever that is worth.
Any child support (departing gifts) is separate from the prenup and cannot be negotiated prior to marriage. This is where most men get screwed because it is determined later. Think about how Kevin Federline gets his bills paid – there was a solid prenup in his game and he just blew by it to a life of leisure by getting custody of the kids.
Indeed, the only sure way not to fall off a mountain is to not climb it.
I'm sure someone will menstruate out an "argument" that risk-averse behavior means one will get nowhere in life.
Those same people are welcome to bet me their life savings on a coin flip. Heads I get it all, tails, they keep what they have....for now.
Much like the above coin flip, taking risks heedlessly is fucking stupid if there is nothing to be gained from it that could be obtained without said risk to begin with.
That has been every single argument that I heard from marriage, once I explained that I didn't feel like gambling with all the assets I have acquired in life so far. That has been the argument from my parents: "but son, you can't just live your life being afraid, you'll end up lonely and miserable! We too have taken a risk, we didn't know what life would bring us blah blah blah". Yes, they took a "risk" in a country and at a time where divorce was something shameful, and someone knew someone who had an aunt who divorced a known alcoholic and that was it.
I'm pretty risk averse myself, but I'd sooner quit my job and invest half of everything I own into a business venture. That's risk I can manage, that's risk that I am in control of. And if it fails and I lose everything, at least I won't have to pay dividends to that failed company for the rest of my life.
When a man is coerced he's a weak willed, pathetic individual not capable of standing up for himself. When a women is coerced she's a victim of manipulation. Shit's fucked
It's getting pretty damn old reading all you "Red Pill" hamsters justifying this horrendously stupid decision time and time again.
AWALT, dummies
First off, if you want children who--statistically speaking--turn out better you should get married. Wanting children to grow up in a stable home is not crazy. Even children understand that when their parents aren't married, there is inherent instability.
Second, partnerships are about control and mutual interests. If you choose a woman who is brought up in a family where divorce is shamed and stable households are preached, they will be less inclined to get divorced even during the rough patches even if it's "for the kids". Don't date and marry party girls.
Thirdly, always get a prenup.
Bullshit. Children turn out better with a mother and father living under the same roof. A piece of paper issued by the state has nothing to do with this, and said piece of paper is worthless in terms of keeping families together. If anything, current family court laws and precedence encourages women to divorce their husbands, promising cash and prizes and a continuing income stream.
Doesn't that scenario you describe fall into the de facto marriage category?
I can't agree with this enough. In most of these disastrous divorce cases the women are all pretty much the same - useless, washed-up cum dumsters that run their own 'interior design' business when they're not shopping and travelling without their husband.
Now at risk of breaking the 'AWALT' mantra, regardless of whether all women are susceptible to fantasising about cheating or divorce, there are plenty of women whose families would not tolerate that sort of behaviour from them, and the risk of being socially ostracised from their own friends and family is dramatically worse than the material gains of sexual satisfaction and a hefty divorce payout.
Admittedly, it's getting harder and harder to find women from families like that in the west, but they do exist.
Being married does not make a "stable" home. As you can see by the vast number of divorces.
A stable home is made by two stable adults who know what they are doing in a relationship. Before you get into a LTR, know what you want, and know that your partner wants the same thing.
Horrible advice.
The risk vs reward doesn't compute. The risk is very high and the reward is low.
It simply doesn't make sense for a man to marry these days (unless she's loaded). Any other conclusion is hamstering.
Are you new here or just actively ignorant?
You don't need to sign a legal document to have that.
I disagree. You also don't need to be insulting about it. Some people do like marriage and exclusive relationships. Just because you don't doesn't mean that's how it should be.
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Depends on where you're willing to live.
You'll notice that there aren't a lot of stories from Dubai, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, or Indonesia, about women cheating on their husbands and then getting huge divorce settlements afterwards.
It's not about exclusive relationships; it's about willingly signing over your property rights to an untrustworthy person for literally nothing in return. You're an idiot for agreeing to it in the first place.
I like the idea of marriage.
And, I hate marriage.
Source: Was married.
If I got to keep half your shit plus other incentives I would love marriage and exclusive relationships too.
Wrong. The major mistake here was getting married.
Another thing could be to have a review clause every X years. The courts may say that a prenup Y years ago don't meet her needs (BS, I know).
The review clause ensures that you factor in things like kids.
The trick with that is to hold frame.
Of course, guys who roped in women with the whole "prenups are the only way I know you just don't want money" ethos would have an easier time doing it this way.
Two things to also consider:
Think extremely carefully, if you have a high standard of living the courts for some silly reason believe the divorce should leave the other party with the same standard of living they had in the marriage.
If she refuses to sign the prenup initially, just next her. Plate her if she comes back because resistance to sign a prenup at any stage shows this shit will happen as Mr. Millionaire found out.
This escapes me. All of this does, but this too. I GAVE HER that standard of living. She got it because I provided for her in exchange for fucking me. When we're not together, she can go find someone else, or fend for herself. Isn't that fucking logic?
I know, I know. It baffles me too. My only reason for that is the whole "women are victims" notion, that's why without a well designed prenup (whereby you'll have to invest prior to ensure her needs with this BS are met) courts do this stupid thing. In fact prenups are probably thrown out BECAUSE of that.
Lesser evil I guess, have some sort of insurance plan during the marriage to use in the divorce. Or bank roll her for life.
Of course some will talk about household contributions, but beware the women are wonderful phenomenon. The only way around that is to portray her as greedy, the only way to do that is a costly insurance plan like ensure she has a place to stay (so you keep your home) etc.
Logic, there be none. Well I guess if anything you can say the state doesn't want to take care of her, so in order to reduce govt spending, they fuck the guy over since now the matriarchal forces that be influence this shit.
It's so fucking stupid though. Why does she get a BETTER standard of living than me, with more of MY income, when IT'S MINE. She can "tough it out a bit" especially if she initiated the fucking divorce. Part of the downsides of not being with me, and are not using my money. Jesus Christ dude I can't even imagine giving some ungrateful bitch money to go off and get fucked in MY house. I-I could not do that. I would hire a homeless person or some shit.
How long before the wedding should the prenup be signed ?
Never. Because you shouldnt get married.
Or, if you really want to get married:
Do everything legally possible to ensure your prenup is as far away from "coercion" as possible.
Set up a financial failsafe plan just in case, most likely establishing a trust fund for yourself and/or using offshore accounts
But then again, I'm just never getting married.
If anyone reads this thread and still thinks marriage is a good idea in any circumstance, they are beyond help and deserve what, statistically, will happen to them.
Expert reporting in.
You'll want two documents and two signings. The first is your prenup agreement that is to be signed a minimum 3 months but recommended 1 year before the marriage takes place. The second is to be done right before the marriage, it is your admission papers to a mental hospital because you're insane for getting married.
In all seriousness, have you ever read the actual default marriage contract that is validated when you'd get married? Any sane person would not consent to it if they had.
Which I find funny... If a prenup was as harsh as the default marriage contract, it would be thrown out for being far too advantageous to one party.
College kid here, how bad is the rape by legalese on marriage agreements?
It depends somewhat on where you live. It also depends on what you have to lose.
If you're a broke couple with no kids and no property, not much changes when you divorce. You file Pro Se and go about your ways. But if you're financially destitute, you shouldn't be working any LTR of any sort anyway.
Now as far as where to live I'm not an expert on anywhere non-US because the laws vary so drastically. In the US, financially, there are 9 states that are somewhat favorable towards marriage.
These are states that use community property laws vs. the 50/50 equitable distribution system. With community property any assets you had prior to the marriage remain yours. However any assets acquired during the marriage are split. It's favorable to other states because equitable distribution means everything is up for grabs, and often times a prenup is thrown out if the divorce will leave a vast financial imbalance between the two individuals. But, in either system, regardless of what the law says, the system favors women in divorce. If you're a man you will need an excellent lawyer to protect yourself.
Some states have different grounds on which divorce is allowed. Others allow for no-fault divorces. Generally, the only difference is that a duration of legal separation is required prior to divorcing in states that don't offer a no-fault divorce.
Now if you have kids, all bets are off. Prepare to lose full custody of them to the mother. Short of her being in a mental hospital or prison, as a man you are going to be the bad guy if she says you are the bad guy. In almost all locations, prepare to be on the hook for child support, spousal support, and secondary custody. The benefit of not getting married here is that without the marriage, you generally are only on the hook for a minimum child support (based on your taxable income) and custody is more or less the same difficulty in obtaining. But, as opposed to a divorce, without the marriage the woman is not going to be automatically granted these rights. She will have to take extra steps and make extra petitions to gain the same advantages that divorce would have granted her. Many women do not follow through with this.
Long story short. If you get married in the wrong place and/or without the right protection, prepare to be devastated. During the dissolution process you can lose your money, your children, and in some circumstances your freedom (such as in at-fault divorce states a woman might claim her reason for divorcing you was rape).
A few years would be better. Until family law attorneys start commenting on this thread I wouldn't read to many comments.
The problem is that this case makes it sound like reluctancy is some kind of legal defense, and if that's the case then the woman having her lawyer there wouldn't really change that.
Husbands lawyer: Here's the prenup, sign it lady.
Wife: But... I don't really want to, I mean do we really need to do this bby?
Husband: I won't get married without a pre-nup.
Wifes lawyer: it's your choice, you can sign it or not
Wife: ok i'll sign it
Years later...
Wife: I never wanted to sign it in the first place! I felt pressured!
In this case the wedding was already planned, invitations were sent out, RSVPs were received and the final preparations were being made. You can see how the duress argument is much easier to make in this case. "Your Honor, could you imagine the shame and humiliation of telling the many family members, dear friends and other guests that the wedding was off? She put in countless hours preparing for this wedding that she dreamed of her entire life only to be blindsided by a sudden ultimatum. This man might as well have put a gun to my client's head!"
It's much harder to make that argument if she agreed to a prenup before the wedding was even scheduled. It's even better if it was signed before the engagement was announced. If she had her own lawyer advising her, it makes it even harder to claim that she was pressured. Really? By her own counsel? Sure the husband could have walked, but she had plenty of time to think it over plus legal representation to walk her through the process.
If you insist on swimming in a lake of fire, ya gotta wear asbestos trunks. If I ever thought about tying the knot, it would be only under these conditions below. If she balks at any point, then she's not someone to bind lives together with.
Draw up your prenup with your lawyer, incl will-style prose to the effect of "can only be superseded by legal paperwork", ie no informal promises or statements, etc. She gets her own lawyer (her dime, not yours) and they read it. Depending on haggle room, allow the lawyers to talk it over. Don't talk about it at all with her informally, period. When all is ready, all 4 meet with witnesses, all parties sign off, notarize, and copies to each. Video/audio record as well. Then and only then does she get to take my name and bear my children.
Marriage is essentially a business merger; treat it as such.
Very wise ideas indeed. Unfortunately, a family court still has the discretion to rule that a prenup was "unreasonable" as well. So it's important to make sure that in the event of a divorce she still gets something if you earn far more than her. Your wealth will take a hit but the key is to make it manageable and not catastrophic.
While there are horror stories like this one, many other wealthy men kept most of their wealth thorough well-executed agreements. Take Elon Musk for example. His ex-wife will still be far richer than 99.9% of people on this planet, but he walked away relatively unscathed and was soon dating a 27 year old actress.
Oil biionaire Harold Hamm was worth $10+ billion. His wife got $1 billion in the divorce but that still wasn't enough! She tried to sue for more but she lost the case.
I laughed out loud at that...laughter that sort of trailed off into a grim expression.
Since she's living off his money I doubt she'll work a day regardless...
Uh, an extra $25k would do most people a world of favors, if just to get out of debt quickly, pay off house, and actually save for retirement.
I bet she has clickbait ads out there, "I make more barely working, with this one trick, you can too!"
DO NOT GET MARRIED.
Oh look. Another instance of a cheating women, hot off relationships subreddit:
https://archive.is/KQten
I know as a group we're basically split on telling the husband, but it seems to have worked out alright in this guy's favor. He owned up once he knew, even provided the husband with proof. Oh, and she gave OP (the other man) anal, never gave it to the husband. Of course right?
The only conceivable way I'd ever get married is if everything was in trusts with trustworthy lawyers and accountants so if shit hits the fan, oh that's too bad, corporations own all of my money and assets, the greedy bitch would get nothing, maybe paperwork has her on the books as a consultant to the business, she receives a yearly stipend but if she creates an emotional problem for other employees (IE: ME) she forfeits her salary. When you break it down to a business deal, wouldn't the women rather not be tied to so much legal paperwork? Make it such a pain to marry you that completely protects you, and then how much do they really need the marriage license when it no longer gives her absolute power. Just spitballin' now.
You spittin fire son, keep talking
This happens all the time in the U.S. ... Listen boys: prenups are not some ironclad defense against getting divorce-raped. They can, and are, thrown out at the whim of the judge all the time.
The point is: don't get fucking married until the laws change. And if for some reason you decide to anyway, well you better be really really sure, and even then pray for the best. Given the right time and circumstances: AWALT. It's on you, you have been warned.
Whenever we have prenup discussions, usually a lawyer posts that this stuff doesn't happen all the time and that the best way to go about prenups is to get the female's lawyers to review the agreement as well as your own.
So, what did this guy do wrong?
A judge at any point can declare a contract null and void if he/she sees grounds for it. It's all interpretation. And given our current gynocentric culture in the West, he-said/she-said situations are often gonna come down on the side of the woman. That is exactly what happened here.
There is really no ironclad protection for the man. Prenups provide some defense, but your best bet is to not get married. Not until the laws change.
The only way to win is not to play.
Just curious, are you a lawyer?
Nope, but my father is. I've had extensive conversations with him about this topic. His words: The law is just a piece of paper, the only thing that counts is the interpretation of it.
Can you ask your dad or (if a lawyer here can comment), that what if the prenup had language like this:
"The parties agree that no oral argument or any exception or modification can be made to this agreement and that there will be zero decision in the future to overturn this prenup unless specifically stated and agreed upon by both parties in a subsequent signed document."
How can any judge reinterpret that to void the contract? The contract is basically saying that there will be no oral agreements or exceptions.
Unless the woman can prove that she was under duress or threatened to sign (in which case, why not go to the police right then and there?). That should mean that it can never be overturned unless duress/coercion was claimed in a police report relatively soon after signing.
I cannot imagine even the most mentally disturbed judge overturning that. Even if it miraculously got overturned, a simple appeal should overturn that decision.
That's usually because they're crappy lawyers, or law students that don't know what they're talking about, but want to sound like they do.
I live in a major metropolitan area and know the best divorce attorney in the region. Quite possible the best in the country/world.
He is not married. I once asked him if he ever thought of getting married. Unprompted, these were his words:
"If I ever want to get married, I will just find a woman I hate and buy her a house."
No joke.
That's a quote from Lewis Grizzard. Other funny guys from that period, like Woody Allen and Rodney Dangerfield, had similar things to say about marriage. I particularly like this one from Rodney:
"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."
He's a divorce attorney and who's to say he doesn't have his own problems?
That's a quote I heard Rod Stewart use a few years back. It's a great one.
He didn't do anything "wrong". The family court took the womans word over the mans word and another man got fucked by the system.
I meant in the legal sense. The fact that this guy got a prenup means that he's no slouch. He knew the dangers of getting married and tried to protect himself against them. I'm sure he had access to lawyers who guided him through the process so where did they all go wrong? How can a contract like this be thrown out so easily?
He probably should have refused to proceed with wedding plans until she and her lawyers and his lawyers and witnesses all saw her sign it in triplicate with a hand on the Bible etc, so that she couldn't have a leg to stand on about an oral agreement.
And if you're a rich man and you want to marry a woman and she gives you shit about signing the prenup... don't marry her. Drop her like a hot potato, because clearly she's trouble.
Doesn't matter two hoots.
Her argument was "he agreed verbally we'd throw it out if/when we had kids".
Myself, I'm wondering if it would have made more sense to account for any children in the pre-nup itself. A clause, if you like, that says "this is how much you'll get if there are children". It'd be a lot harder to claim such an agreement existed when the contract plans for such an event, but IANAL.
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The family courts are stacked in the woman's favor. It was literally her word against his and the judge sided with her. This is why "do not get married" is so prevalent here.
No, it's her word against a signed an executed legal document and the judge still sided with her.
No he clearly didn't. There are so many "but my girl is a unicorn" posters on here thinking that their marriage is different and they understand the risk.
The entire system is stacked against you. It's not worth the risk.
The judge took the word of the woman and trough out the hole thing just because.
He could have Keanu in the devil's avocate and would still lose.
Sounds like his lawyers didn't add an integration clause. Check out the Parol Evidence Rule for more information.
I feel like you're almost certainly leaving out some important detail...
I'm one of those lawyers who usually chimes in on this stuff about prenups. I only had to read a few paragraphs of the story to tell exactly where and how he fucked up. It's right here:
When he didn't have that prenup in hand at least 60 days before the wedding, he should have called the wedding off. By allowing her to wait until the last minute, it gave credence to her story that he made some new promise (that he would destroy it after they had kids) to get her to sign it. This is just another variation of the classic mistake of springing a prenup on your spouse right before the wedding.
Also note this was back in April 2013. In the last 2.5 years, there hasn't been some flood of prenups getting invalidated. That shows that the circumstances here are probably not quite what most of the commenters on this sub are pretending them to be.
Why didn't his lawyers catch this? It's bizarre that they wouldn't have at least foreseen this possibility.
They may have. They may have told this guy, "don't rely on this prenup if she doesn't sign it at least a month before the wedding". This guy may not have told his lawyers that she had been refusing to sign it. Love makes people do stupid shit.
The court is essentially saying that this woman has no agency and rewarding her for it.
Thank you very much for your input, always welcome.
So is it true that the last 2.5 years prenups havent been thrown out? Do we see a change in mentality then? Do you think this will continue?
I cannot say that any haven't been thrown out. There may have been some executed under duress, where full disclosures were not made, etc. However, the fact that this issue about the prenup getting thrown out made the news should speak a lot about what a rarity it is for that to happen.
I will also note that the New York Appellate Division (2nd Dept.), which is the same court that made the ruling that this story is about, has ruled as recently as June and October 2014 (after the case in the story was decided) that prenups are enforceable and that representations supposedly made regarding the prenup that are not in the prenup itself may not override the actual terms of the prenup. McKenna v. McKenna, 121 A.D.3d 864 (N.Y. App. Div. 2014) and In re Fizzingolia, 118 A.D.3d 994 (N.Y. App. Div. 2014).
So much of what happened in this story is just fact specific, and based on the fact that the husband was apparently very evasive in court (at least according to the court opinion) and therefore did not seem credible in his version of events.
There's two parts to this paragraph.
What's to stop a woman from crying duress 30 days before the wedding? The time seems irrelevant as long as the judge believes this part...
this is basically his word against hers since there's no proof of this verbal agreement.
Because duress generally requires that a party be left with no reasonable alternative but to do something. The longer the period you have to act, the more likely it is that you have other reasonable alternatives. For example, canceling a wedding and getting at least a partial refund on some of the items (especially shit like cake, flowers, catering, etc) is much easier a month or two out than it is on the eve of the wedding.
I just imagine any woman saying "he was emotionally abusive and said I had no choice but to sign it". And then putting the icing on the cake, "we had a verbal agreement outside of this contract" and getting it thrown out.
He put a ring on it.
The only power you will ever have in a relationship is your power to walk away. There is absolutely no advantage to giving up that power.
It's so freeing to realize that.
In the words of Robert de Nero, " Never have anyone or anything in your life that you can't walk out on in 30 seconds or less if you see the heat coming around the corner."
I've applied that in a Red Pill perspective.
he was stupid enough to get married.
and then secondly, stupid enough to think a prenup was his best option (when its not)
According to the article, the agreement was signed only days before the wedding so her lawyer successfully argued that she was "forced" into signing the prenup. The prenup should be signed well in advance of the wedding and she should have her own legal counsel thorough the process.
Fucking jokes man. Next they'll say that the contract is only valid if both sides hatch a chicken's egg under a toad at 2 am under the luminescent light of a full moon.
Bahahahahaha!
I laugh. But in a decade or two some feminist attorney general will table a law with that exact wording.
And it will be signed into law with no criticism from society (except from some red pill sites).
Except in most states its very clear about what makes a prenup invalid. This idiot committed the number one mistake in prenup land - getting it signed at the last minute.
Your comment is good and the rest of the comments are low-quality rant.
Maybe all prenups can be thrown out on a whim by fem-activist judges, but this particular case still had that reasons, so it's not a definite proof for the TRP-preferred theory.
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This. This is how the real old money does it. The dead beat son gets a cheque monthly instead of a lump sum, gets the use of houses cars etc that are wholly owned by the Trust.
That way when he inevitably falls in love with a skank in a Atlantic City she doesn't get a payday.
A trust isn't ironclad either. The court could impute the valuue if you are the only one on the board of directors or whatever the case may be. I.e. if you have a degree of control over the money.
This might sound stupid and sure is, but what if you put your milions before getting married on untraceable bitcoins? You can literally divide your wealth put them in many encrypted hard drives that you hide/keep around the world and no one could know where.
He was coercive, and she didn't have representation. Either you have to both work with a lawyer together or you have to both be represented. If you want your prenup to stick you have to do it right. Of course this was almost 20 years ago, and we have the benefit of additional case law that helps us know how to do it best.
His lawyers must've let him down then. They should have been familiar with the procedure.
Yeah, if you have 20 million, you hire counsel for your fiancee. Sometimes the cheap way is expensive, sometimes the fast way is slow.
Another way to look at it is; if you are going to the trouble of being married do you want to be married to a) someone who may feel trapped/tricked and b) someone stupid enough to have fallen for that... If you can't respect her more than that you shouldn't be wrapping your life up with her.
It doesn't matter. This could happen in only 1 out of 100 cases, and the fact of the matter would be that it's still a possibility.
You have to weigh the pros against the cons whenever you make a decision, especially for something like marriage.
Cons of marriage: divorce rape, financial ruin, the undoing of your life's work, and permanent estrangement from your children.
Pros or marriage: file jointly for taxes.
Fuck that.
He didn't have her get a lawyer to look it over. After she made a big stink about the prenup and refused to sign it he married her anyways.
Any woman that freaks about a prenup should be walked away from immediately.
While my intuition tells me this is true, I'd be curious to see the actual numbers of % of prenups that are thrown out due to coercion.
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We know, it's shit. Everything favors them, but not getting married is a good start. And if they word laws to fuck men over too badly, maybe some people will wake up.
Someone should start killing all those judges who trough away prenups.
I'm not even joking.
Nah, the simplest solution is just to not get married in the current climate.
Violence it the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov
I was half joking, but don't kid yourself violence gets results, and no moral is stronger than steel.
And women wonder why men are opting out of marriage
They aren't.Thats the big fucking problem.
Because every woman no matter how big a slut will choose a stable rich guy with zero personality for marriage over a chad.
She'll of course keep fucking him on the side, but thats a diff point.
Not all men are, but there is clearly a movement for men to avoid marriage. Marriage rates are declining and there aren't enough stable wealth
guyssuckers to go around.Whether its the red pill men or the MGTOW movement. The men-opting out approach is real and reflective of declining marriage rates. If there are guys out there who still marry despite the increasing evidence of its increasing toxicity that is on them. There is no excuse given the preponderance of data and anecdotal stories about men getting screwed over.
Even if that wasn't the case, most married men are miserable. No sex and can't even wank in peace. Maybe 1/10 are legitimately happy and not just delusional.
I don't quite understand this. Are women not interested in sex? Do they usually have lower sex drives? And if so, why do they go and fuck chad and cheat on their marriage? Are they not interested in stable families and raising children in a stable family?
None of this makes any sense to me.
Often times females are more attracted to the "feels" you give them. Once you're married the husband seems like old, boring news to the woman. They want something fresh, something exciting and unknown. This effect is multiplied exponentially if the guy becomes out of shape as time passes. And no, they're not interested in stability. Because feelz>realz(reality).
Yes, they have lower sex drives, and that sex drive is more responsive rather than initiating. That is, if the right guy comes and gives them tingles, she wants sex, but it is driven from external circumstances rather than internally. Testosterone drives sex drive in both sexes, and it is 12-17x higher in men.
This is of evolutionary importance, since sex itself is enjoyed by both sexes (actually, often more by the woman), but having a higher sex drive means that men have to pay something extra to coax the gender with the lower drive to give it up. If they had equal drives, there would be no need for 'sweeteners' like commitment. Women's greater power in sexual relationships stems precisely from their lower sex drive. This is why married women can refuse sex until some other 'favours' are supplied, like repainting a room or mowing the lawn.
As for not being interested in stable families, a consequence of being driven by feelings more than logic is a deficiency is long-term thinking, of seeing consequences for actions. She doesn't know what she will feel in the future, so can't plan for it.
The only reason why women are interested in "stability" is because "stability" = provisions. That meaning the kids are being fed, she can buy some basic bitch Michael Kors gear, and have the luxury of going on vacations now and then.
Women can just transfer that "stability" from a husband directly into their bank account and kick the guy out of his own family's home though. Look at all the feminist propaganda out there lately that teaches people that divorced households can be perfectly healthy and how dads are unnecessary.
I think TRP is living proof that a broken nuclear family will result in a whole generation lost. Daughters wind up in abusive relationships, think that flashing their tits is social activism, and are more likely to just make general poor life decisions. Sons who grow up without a father are way more likely to become involved in gang activity if they live in a bad area, become involved in some illegal activity/get arrested/wind up in jail, or they just become some soft body fuck boy who gets pushed around and doesn't know how to stand up for himself.
Obviously, this isn't always the case.. And sometimes people from really good families wind up fucking up; but I live in a working class town and grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. I work in an upper middle class typical suburban town and the difference is night and day.
Im a redpiller who wants to get married because I want a cute little daughter to take care of (there's nothing more in the world that I want), and she needs to have mother/father figures in her life. Plus the fact that my family and relatives would crucify me in the town square if I had a child outside of marriage.
I've seen two friends post some shit mocking modern marriage, with an image of a wife cheating on her husband and walking away with everything. The 20 year old dudes are waking up, I promise.
Posting funny images online really doesn't mean shit. Everyone does that, including the people that the image makes fun of. If those 20 year olds actually stick to the not getting married idea, then props to them, but IMO there's zero correlation between posting one of those images and actually following through with not getting married when you've got some "unicorn" begging you to do so.
The subs "nice guys" and "just neck beard things" are perfect examples. You know those places are flooded with clueless little beta blue pill dorks who think they're above that…
The 20 year old dudes will have next to nothing to choose from anyway. Women are apparently all lesbians now.
All kinds are getting married.
I've got a "main" group of friends where the vast majority are not married, despite being in very long term relationships. There are a few engagements and "promise rings," but no wedding dates set. Basically the guys succumbing to the woman's pressure to "get married," but seem to be pushing it off as long as possible. Some smarts there.
I've also recently started hanging out with a "new" group of friends. I've known two of these guys for years, and have met most others here and there. Even though the groups of friends are all around the same age, same background (everyone is from Eastern Europe), very similar social/economical status, etc., everyone in the second group is either recently married, or about to be.
The guy I've known longest in the second group is not your typical macho alpha, but he's got great game, was a successful (local) DJ at several night clubs, very social, tons of friends, high SMV, etc. Has been with the same girl for 6-7 years now and is getting hitched in a week. One of the other guys (whom I just met for the first time a few days ago) is very clearly alpha, and he's getting married in a few weeks, too.
Everyone in the two groups is from 24 to 31 years old, and pretty much everyone is fully onboard the marriage train. I can only guess how many of these couples will be divorced within five years.
there's always a man willing to marry these women. The only change is that these women are having to lower their standards to lock down their beta bucks. Which we all know will lead to even more divorces down the road.
It takes self respect and strength to say you'd rather be alone than settle for an Alphas left overs, something most men simply do not have. I wouldn't even say its 80%, I would say it is closer to 90 or 95% of people are so terrified of "being alone" that they would marry a woman who has seen more cock than the piss trough at Wrigley field during the 7th inning stretch.
I don't have firm numbers, but if you are an Alpha and at the top of your SMV what percentage of American women are really suitable/worth the risk of getting married and knocking up?
Once you're on the other side. When you finally experience what it's like to be a girl's Chad, the fact that they'll do almost anything sexually, you can never look at women the same way.
I'm not even attractive and I've had a few of those experiences; I can only imagine what it's like for the tall, broad shouldered, deep voiced, classically handsome men.
Personally I'd rather die alone, than settle for a woman that spent her 20s swallowing Chad's load.
Ain't that the truth.
Same boat here; I am far from an attractive man. However, once you have the experience of being a girls chad and spinning plates there is no way to go back (and why would anyone want to).
Count me in on the die alone crowd, I would never settle for a woman who has seen more traffic than a major highway during rush hour. AWALT
AWALT means that they have the same propensity to certain actions, but it doesn't mean they've all had the exact same life experiences. There are women with low partner counts, even if they're very rare.
Every single American woman will turn on you given the right circumstances. They all know it's an easy payday with virtually zero risk.
Always, ALWAYS AWALT yes any woman will turn on you if you lose frame. But seriously, women who are actually worth that risk, who have not ridden the CC till they fell off, who don't have deep seeded psychological issues and have no problem being the traditional wife. We are talking about what..1 in 100 American women? Maybe 1 in 50?
The pool seems extremely small these days of women who are worth the risk.
You need to add several zeroes, my friend. It's not a new problem, but it's gotten far worse.
"I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all." — King Solomon, circa 950 B.C.
This man understands and he learned the hard way.
Do not get married
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What I don't get is why they don't move to South America, or East Asia (Philippines, Cambodia, etc), there are amazing countries where you can be a king with western money.
You can simply find a young, catholic, clean girl very easily.
Why do men go into the wild and hunt dangerous animals? The thrill. These wealthy men convince themselves that NAWALT and that they are so cool, wealthy and fly that they can somehow tame the beast that is 90+% of American women.
To take some very famous advice, you can't turn a hoe into a house wife, hoes don't act right. CC riders are basically hoes so there you go.
What bothers me is the audacity of the judge to throw out the prenup based on nothing but someone's word. She marries into the money, destroys her family, destroys her cousins family, never produces a penny and still gets rewarded. Unbelievable. It's cases like this that the public needs to be aware of.
a similar thing happened to my good buddy when he was 27. he got married after dating a girl for 2 years, and it was largely because they both came from traditional catholic families. they had to get married before they moved in together or else their families would have made life hell for them.
he brought a shit load more assets to the marriage because he had already graduated college and had a good professional career going. before he met her, he bought a nice townhome for cheap right after the economic crash in 2008, and the place shot up in value. (real estate is a great investment if you're patient and wait for an economic scare, by the way). after they got married, he bought her a car, paid for her full-time college tuition so that she could finish her bachelors, and also paid the bills and mortgage. he paid for her entire life, basically. he was a pretty darn good catch in terms of financial stability.
she started cheating on him after about 2 years of marriage with a guy in her college courses. she wanted to come clean but was too much of a coward to tell him, so she started leaving her phone out so that he would eventually see that she was getting messages from other guys.
they had a fairly amicable break up considering everything. when they got divorced, he was crushed and didn't want to fight over anything so he just agreed to split their net assets 60% for him, 40% for her including the profits from the townhome that he sold when they decided to divorce. this means that she got a huuuuuuge cash payout because she brought nothing to the marriage besides a bit of debt.
TLDR: she got free tuition, a free car, free room and board, and was entitled to a huge portion of the sale of a home that she did not pay a single cent into. she got all of this by cheating in her marriage.
Epilogue: after all of this, he moved in with me and decided to quit his professional career as an engineer and become a snowboard instructor. he's got a lot of confidence and game, and he's been using and abusing women ever since. i witnessed an upstanding man who would make a fine husband and father get chewed up by marriage and transformed into an uncaring player who seems to take pleasure in playing with girl's feelings. the traditional path for men turned out to be a trap for him. i went through a similar transformation, but at least i didn't get married and i wasn't so badly hurt that i formed sadistic feelings towards women.
this story is a microcosm of western culture's trajectory. it's broken.
Where have all the good men gone...
How do Catholics feel about pre-nups? Has Rome ruled on that topic?
Well I don't have an answer for you, but ideally Catholics are not supposed to get divorced, so I would assume the church says that there is no need for a prenup.
Former Catholic here. Catholics can never be divorced in the church's eyes, so getting a pre-nup is both pointless and a terrible way to start off the "lifelong" marriage. That said, I've seen plenty of very conservative Catholic marriages split. They legally divorce but the church still considers them married so they basically have to be celibate for the rest of their lives to avoid being in sin, which pretty much none of them do.
Well the strange thing about pre-nups from a Catholic perspective is that on the one hand, they appear to set the marriage up on shaky foundations, implying that one partner doesn't trust the other. But on the other hand, considering divorce is totally unacceptable according to Catholic doctrine, it shouldn't actually be a major problem as - ideally - divorce is not ever going to occur anyway.
Italian Catholic here (well, ex-catholic). There is simply no divorce in the Catholic Church, so no pre-nups. If both partners express a conscious and free consent to the marriage, the sacrament is valid and indissoluble until death. If a religious court verifies that the consent of one or both spouses was defective in some way (not sincere, not free, or not mindful of all its implications), the marriage is declared null, that is, it never really happened, the couple was never married.
Everything else (pre-nups, economic aspects of the separation etc.) are just things the Church is not concerned with and are thus handled by the civil courts.
People generally do what they are incentivized to do.
Work hard, get married, build a career, be faithful to one woman, and then pay through the nose in a divorce?
Or drop out and pump-and-dump hot snowboard chicks?
The anguished wailing of a woman is like Gregorian chant to me. Such sweet music they play.
Its just unfathomable for me why rich fucking guys would bet half their shit on a modern whore.Downright suicidal
Also surreal that no matter how accomplished and established some guys are ,they just lose their senses when a woman comes along
Self-made rich people spend so much time building their career that they have no opportunity to learn from experience how women treat men. Without an instruction manual like TRP that's a bad road to go down.
This is why Charlie Sheen went with hookers; he could hire a cook, hire a maid, get arm candy celeb dates for Hollywood stuff and he decided to hire women for sex to avoid exactly this situation.
It is not worth the risk anymore; even if you don't put a ring on her finger, some gold digging bitch comes out with woodworks with false rapes claims ala Kobe. Looks like some random bar pussy is accusing my favorite athlete Patrick Kane of rape. I am sure he will be found not guilty but will have to settle out of court just to shut the chick up.
he has two ex wife's that he pays for though
A lot of those rich guys are the guys who spent their whole lives playing by the book and doing the right thing; like Tyler Durden before his apartment burned.
So basically a prenup needs these to be effective, and even then the judge can just go LOL NOPE and throw it out?:
Shit, even that isn't enough? What the fuck.
One of the clauses of a proper prenup is that the division is seemingly fair. Which is the most bullshit, subjective metric you could possibly imagine. A judge can decide it's not fair because he has the gynocentric view that she is entitled to money, no matter what, and simply chuck the prenup out.
No clue if this is so, but can those bullshit rulings get appealed under a different judge? Unfortunately not knowledgeable under how civil cases work.
It can but im pretty sure it basically just gets back round to the same judge/the judges uphold each others rulings often times. Also most guys cant afford to appeal
I haven't heard of any case of an asset distribution order like that being appealed. Normally, you can't just go to a different judge, you can appeal to a higher court (for regular civil cases, regular court -> superior court -> supreme court, not sure if this also goes for family law cases), and you need to state grounds for the appeal. Grounds are either a misuse, concealment or fabrication of facts or evidence, or a faulty interpretation of the law by the presiding judge. You also need to show that you brought these issues up before a judgement was made.
Now, if a judge throws out your prenup, I don't know how you can claim misinterpretation of the law. If it's their personal assessment of the meaning of the contract, or if they think it was done under duress, there's not much you can do. In terms of facts or evidence, since divorces are no-fault, there's also not much you can use.
Appeals are hard to get, it's not just a matter of not liking a judgement, you need to build a case for it. Plus, they're costly, so at some point it might not be worth the money anymore.
I don't get how throwing out a legal contract is not grounds for an appeal.
The idea of duress has to be imminent. It cannot be that the woman was under duress for decades, then why aren't there criminal charges? Why didn't the woman go to the police after signing the contract?
I don't understand how such a thing cannot be appealed. The judge used his own subjective assessment to throw out a legally binding contract. That's like the very basis of appeals, a misinterpretation of the law or a contract or ripping up a contract that was legal. The whole point of courts is to determine whether contracts or laws were abided by. I'm pretty sure throwing out a contract is grounds for appeal.
And I highly doubt that an appeal costs more than getting slapped with splitting of assets.
And why would there be that much cost to an appeal?
I'm not a lawyer, but I did take some law courses in college.
The judge didn't throw out a legal contract, he declared the contract invalid under duress. And you don't understand what the concept of duress means. It does not mean she was fearing for her life for decades. It does not mean the person who coerced her did something criminal. There doesn't even need to be a person applying duress. All duress means is that extreme external circumstances made the person act in a way different from how they would normally act. That's where the legal theory stops, and where the judge must make a determination whether it applies. Since that is at the judge's discretion, it can't be grounds for appeal.
And there is a cost to everything in courtrooms. You need to build the case for your appeal, which takes lawyer time and therefore costs money. You have filing costs. It's not cheap, and like it or not, money is a barrier of entry by design, to prevent every single case from being appealed and counter-appealed.
My law prof joked that there are two places one should never go to voluntarily: the hospital and the courtroom. Not getting married probably helps in avoiding both.
If the prenup is otherwise OK, I think it's considered fair to keep what you came in with, even if that is way lopsided. It's the way the wealthy protect their fortunes routinely. When a big fortune marries a bigger fortune, a prenup routinely assures that if there's a split, the fortunes leave about as they came.
The ruling families in the US want it this way. I don't think it's going to change for some feminists. Besides feminism is going out of style. Look at the shit Megyn Kelly is getting for pulling the vagina card on the Donald.
Family law is nothing more than a scam industry engineered over several decades to steal money and destroy families. I don't think this is a misandry thing, after all, you do hear of the occasional man getting paid alimony by the rich wife. I believe it's just business - they basically just screw over whoever has the most income (which 9 times out of 10 is the man), in hopes the man will keep "appealing" aka pumping more money into their
criminallegal (by their own definitions) but disgustingly immoral enterprise.Think about it, who writes family laws? Family law attorneys.
Who enforces family laws? Family law attorneys "elected" as judges.
Who profits from family laws? Family law attorneys.
Seeing a trend here?
We talk a lot here about "until laws change" but think about what that would take to happen. We would have to get not one, not a few, but the majority of local, state, and federal representatives to change the system for us. So who are these representatives? You guessed it: attorneys. In fact, IANAL but I'm pretty sure you have to be a family law attorney just to RUN for family court judge, and an attorney just to RUN for state office, meaning that no matter who we campaign for/against, we'll always end up with somebody who we're asking to change the system against their own self interests.
The only way I can see to defeat this system is to starve it to death. Or, in other words, don't get married, ever. Don't let your friends get married. Don't let your kids get married. Boycott the system altogether. Expose women who beg for marriage as the scam artists they are.
I started buying 4 unit apartment buildings a few years ago. The next 12 months should bring me buildings #5 and 6. Yet my 28 year old grocery store cashier gf can't figure out why I don't want to get married.
I tell her why and she goes ballistic. I'm not budging however. I've worked too damn hard to get to where I am, and I'm not about to be taken for a ride.
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Yes I live in a tiny town with 800 people. She is the best I can do at the moment.
Good on you, stick to it. She doesn't deserve your hard-earned shit, dude. If you have money there will always be bitches to hang by you to leech.
Do it, to it! That's my new catchprase.
This is only one of the many reasons men with money don't get married. There is no such thing as an ironclad pre-nup. Even if it's not thrown out, the defense costs can be staggering. Attorneys bill by the hour. Avoid the risk. Fuck marriage.
The ironclad way is to literally hide money in some offshore account far away from government (or spousal) knowledge whatsoever.
This sounds good but is not practical. All international bank accts need declared on your tax forms and lots of logistical stuff. But the biggest issue is your money sits idly buy and makes no investment returns. My diversified stocks and real estate have doubled in value in 5 years. In offshore accts no growth of assets which is how you grow wealth over your lifetime.
I have zero doubt there are offshore investment accounts. I mean honestly, what the fuck do you think Mitt Romney is doing? I'm not dumb enough to get married, so I don't personally have to worry about it.
and re-read my post. You're illegally 'hiding' it from the government and taxes. So yes the IRS "says" to put it down.
I am sorry, but if this happened to me (as a business owner) I think I would literally go postal on her. There are few things that would make me break and this is probably one of them.
Honestly anyone stealing my money, as an ex-junkie hits a spot of me that is irrational and murderous. You don't fuck with my money. I didn't want to work to begin with, my hard-earned money??, oh fuck that.
As her husband AND an ex-junkie, if she 'disappears', you'll be lucky if you ever see daylight again.
If more men went postal females would think twice before trying to fuck them over.
It's not the women fucking them over. It's the government doing it on the woman's behalf.
Go postal on the judges rather than the women. Change will happen a lot faster that way.
Judges enforce the idiotic laws congress makes...those are the regards we need to tar and feather
Either are agents of government, and government only listens to two things: the will of the 55% female majority vote, or the potential revolution that will make that vote moot.
This is the issue. All of the fault here lies in the government enabling lying psychopaths. They're the ones that threw out a legal contract because she said it didn't count. They're the ones who give women money who earned nothing over half of everything. They're the ones who steal children away from their fathers. They're the ones who believe the word of the woman with no other evidence with regard to abuse.
EVERYTHIGN we are seeing is a result of the government's actions. If they treated women as actual equals we wouldn't have a problem.
I doubt it. Over the decades more than enough men have in fact gone postal and, if anything, those incidents were used as a collective excuse for even more draconian feminist laws (violence against women act, etc>)
Yeah you are right. No Marriage No kids is punishment enough for these succubus.
Oh, they'll get the kids all right. Same way women have always got the kids. "Forget" to take the pill and/or go fuck Chad without protection while making sure to use protection with Dave the Provider.
"Oh, I'm pregnant! Damn, condom must have failed!"
(meanwhile, Dave is thinking to himself "strange, I check it every time.....")
The condoms companies say it is 99% protection against STDs and most of them assure you that their shit is unbreakable. I trust them but I don't trust women.
If the woman is narcissistic, going postal just gives her the narcissistic supply she craves. Not the best way forward. You want her to seek her supply elsewhere, while you are implacable.
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I would prefer to spend the remaining millions to make life a living hell for her until the day she died. I would rather burn the money just so she couldn't have it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation
If I had millions of dollars to make someone's life a living hell, the legal route is probably not the most cost effective way of going about it.
It depends on how far you can go. screw up her car, her house (your shit by the way). Fiddle with her social media accounts... etc. Then the real dark shit now. Give her some kind of disease. Pay someone to beat her up, maybe cut a few leg ligaments. You choose.
I'd say put cocaine in her car. Then tell a cop to search her. Put cocaine in her water so a drug screen is positive. Get CPS involved. Then while she's gone, drug dealers burn her house down and rob her identity. Make up a story about how she cheated on you and post it all over face book. Hours people to stalk her and taunt her. Pay her boss to fire her while she's in jail for cocaine. Loud music outside her house every night so she can't sleep. Pizza delivered to her house. Call cops to say you hear screaming in her house until she can't sleep. Then when coups don't come, you hire peopleand break in. How people to creep on her and car call her all during the day. Party people on her friends list to talk shoot about her. Etc. go over and Do random shit like this for DECADES.
I'd just leave the country. easy
What postal is supposed to mean?
You don't need to kill, maim or disfigure someone to destroy all they hold dear.
Why the fuck do judges side with women no matter what. Are they so controlled by their dicks that they can't say no to a woman.
Women control 55% of suffrage. All judges are either elected or appointed by those who are elected.
Seriously? That surprises me. In the UK it's very important that they're appointed, not elected. I suppose a lot of it is political at that level anyway.
However there's a bit of modernist nonsense creeping in, they're looking to hire people for their race and sex instead of how just and incorruptible they are:
And plenty of judges are white knights, the family court system still heavily favours women regardless of circumstance, and women still get much lighter sentences for exactly the same crimes.
The SJW government in Scotland (faithfully funded by English tax pounds, mind you) has even abolished women's prisons altogether. The mind boggles.
You're implying all judges are males, although I'm sure the majority are.
They're not thinking with their dicks, they're thinking with neoteny.
Instead of a marriage with prenup, simply do not get married.
Even if the laws change in your favour: laws are fickle. Society will pull the rug from under you and redefine the law of marriage to be whatever it wants it to mean, LATER. Bait and switch.
The marriage contract you sign today is not the marriage contract that will be enforced against you in 5,10,20,30 years time. We have learned this. This has happened already.
If everyone gets a prenup, they could simply make prenups illegal. Simple as that. And boom, instantly you've got zero protection. Ironclad protection? Oh hell no, they just made it illegal.
The laws of marriage have already changed once. Don't think that even if it looks like a good deal now, it always will be. And right now it looks like a terrible deal.
IF men stop marrying and IF the deal for men improves, this will be made to only apply to new marriages. Feminists will see to this. "Fuck... we need to get married... but men won't... ok, let's make new marriages slightly better for the men, but without improving the deal for those suckers who already signed".
Read TRP. Look at how men are treated. Look how much society cares about you and your money, resources, rights. Look at the past as the best indication of the future, and act accordingly.
Good point dude. They've never cared. If they are throwing you a bone, seemingly, it's because they need you for something. And if seems to good to be true, it probably is.
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Thia right here. If the law is crooked, bend the shit out of it and lie your teeth out.
That's the good thing about being poor, I know my wife is with me not for money
What do you think about faking that you're poor?
I'm really surprised that these judges and divorce attorneys don't wind up dead more often. It honestly puzzles me.
When two people are getting divorced, the focus is almost solely on the other spouse and how you can screw them over. The lawyers love this because they can run up the bill and most divorces are settled outside of court so judges aren't even in the picture most of the time.
And even here on TRP there are people defending marriage in this fucking thread
I actually read the article. Here's where the husband cocked up:
"Before Petrakis married Peter Petrakis in 1998, she was presented with what her lawyer called a "heavy handed" prenup that would give her $25,000 for every year that she and her husband were married, but nothing more. She originally refused to sign it, but a few days before her wedding, she agreed to sign after her husband promised her he would do away with the prenup once the two began to have children. He did not destroy the prenup, even after they had children, according to his estranged wife."
So according to the article:
He put the ring on it
They set a wedding date.
He then throws a pre-nup on her, she refuses to sign.
Wedding date gets closer, she then agrees to pre-nup on condition hubby drops it after kids.
I agree that she's being a greedy bitch for basically saying $25k/year is not enough. But, c'mon, anyone with half a brain would realize that the pre-nup would not hold up if she signed it 2 days before the wedding with a date already set.
If he didn't set a wedding date, she couldn't claim duress. Simple. But yea, if you're gonna marry, marry up in financial resources. She can't hit you for divorce rape and can't use you a BB.
If this scenario were playing out last month I'd agree with you. What did the relevant case law look like twenty years ago?
I don't see what the wedding date has to do with it at all.
The practice of judges invalidating contracts because they are unfair by 2010's standards may well have been unheard of in 1995. The idea that a contract signed in close proximity to a wedding is invalid could be a new idea which only gestated in the case law in the years since this contract was made. He might have fully believed his ass was covered and been given sound legal advice representing the state of the art of the day, only to have his protections legislated out from under him by activist judges and divorce attourneys over the ensuing twenty years.
Ok, i see what you meant now. I'm still having a hard time understanding what the date the contract was signed compared to the date of the wedding has to do with any of this?.
The logic (if you can call it that) is that it is an embarrassment to the woman if the wedding is cancelled. Her reputation gets tarnished, so the husband is apparantly forcing her to sign the document under duress.
Well...her reputation is stellar now.
I'd love to see some case law on this. My wife makes more than I do, but I'm not confident that that'd save my bacon if we ever went to court.
It's not really a man/woman thing, it's a higher earner/lower earner thing. The man is usually the higher earner which is why they are on the bad end more.
The screenwriter for Legally Blonde got divorced and has to pay her ex-husband $8000 a month and she's throwing a fit. Now that women are the majority of college graduates, and hence, higher earners. expect a little push back on this matter.
I know a few women who are paying alimony and all of them are seething deep down because "a woman should never have to pay a man" but they all divorced their husbands because they were the lower income earners and didn't respect them because of it.
That's good to hear. I took a big cut to do something I love and spend less time away from my kids. She wasn't happy about it but that's too bad for her. Kids come first.
They miscalculated, assuming their vaginal privilege would assure they would not have to pay. This makes me happy.
I think the message is that if you feel the wife's affection growing cold, lose your job. Preferably you want to be earning less than she is.
How is signing it within 48 hours of the wedding considered "duress?" She's under no duress to sign it or get married, especially if it's his money paying for the goddamn wedding.
right or wrong, it's a surefire way to get the prenup thrown out
They call it duress because the invitations have been sent, the deposits have all been paid, the extended family is already arriving in town so the wife feels forced to sign under the circumstances.
But you're lower on the ladder & are likely to get hypergamy'd.
I haven't seen any evidence that he said he would drop the prenup after kids. If I had to bet I'd say that she made that up and she's lying (which she has proven to do in the past).
Also, a signed contract is a signed contract. There's no such thing as "duress' in the case of a wedding. Duress is if you hold a gun to someones head or threaten them with violence. Threatening to call off a wedding with a greedy whore (his instincts were right) is not duress, it's intelligent.
Rising 2L here, this shit happens all the time with ANY type of contract. However, this greedy whore made off like a bandit. Hopefully the state Supreme Court (or whatever they call that court level in NY they are weird) will pick up the case and reverse it. I'd also like to note I'm married and it is the biggest mistake of my life. We have two amazeballs kids (as they are my offspring... I did paternity tests) and I only stay with the shrew until post law school when I can divorce her and still be able to see my girls every day. Of course the whore will rape me financially for the next X amount of time with alimony but at least I will get to be with my girls and help them to not be a stupid slut like their mother.
Why not divorce during law school so she can keep half your negative net worth.
Maybe he wants to handle his own case lol.
Just kidding no one is doing that shit fresh outta law school. He'll be raped by the courts and lawyers like everyone else. Talk about trial by fire.
It's crazy how first year law students seemingly know more than twenty year vets and s-m experts.
Listen young pup, a lawyer's credibility is his currency. Spend it at your own risk. You have no idea what you're talking about. I know it plays to what many of the people here want to hear, but contracts being thrown out is an extremely rare occurrence. Parts of contracts? Less rare. I bet you didn't even read the article.
tl;dr: avoid internet "lawyers" and "law students" and their opinions, especially on anonymous forums.
Did you marry a whore? What happened? I understand awalt but when did you realize you wanted divorce? Without doxxing yourself.
This is why the world needs deadpool and assassins.
If you want to have kids, how are you supposed to do it while protecting yourself in the US? I fully believe AWALT and prenups don't mean shit anymore... so even marrying the perfect LTR red pill girl you still risk getting divorce raped. Seems impossible to have children without taking a huge risk
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Fair enough, but you still have no legal control over the children at that point. The mother could take them away and get child support from you overnight if she wished - when I say have kids I meant have children that will 1) have your last name and 2) you are there to be a father figure to them and raise them up right to make sure they don't get sucked into the blue pill mindset taught by single mothers.
This is, of course, assuming you can convince a GF to have your children which I doubt is an easy task. All of them will want to get married first, will be some serious shit tests to pass to achieve this
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Maybe not equal control but certainly more control than having none at all, fathers still win custody etc. Its rare but it still happens
maybe if you can get her to inject the meth IN COURT..
Not an ideal situation, but you can assert your paternal rights within 6 months of the birth, even in a maternal state. This will make a huge difference should any custody issues arise down the road, married or not. In my state (Nevada), this costs about $20.
Not true. As their father, you have just as much control as their mother, regardless of your marital status.
She can do this whether you're married or not.
Courts are doing a better job these days of granting shared/joint custody to fathers. It used to be women were effectively given full custody by default, but these days if you demand joint custody she's going to have to make a valid counter-argument against your parenting abilities. Assuming you're a good father and she can't validate an attack on your character or inability to parent your children, she's not going to be able to take the kids away permanently. Unfortunately, this process could still cost you several years and tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on how long she can afford to keep dragging the legal battle out.
A wise man would give serious consideration to the idea of never having children. I went and got snipped. Admittedly, this was a much easier decision because I already had two kids with my ex-wife and was in my early thirties. I don't know if I would have been able to choose this path as a childless young man in his twenties... tough call.
Not necessarily. If an unwed couple has a child, the biological father is not legally the father unless he signs the birth certificate or raises the child as his own for most of the child's life. If he doesn't, he then has to register as the "putative father" (if such a registry exists in his state) to have the paternity of the child determined by the courts.
For some, its worth the risk. I have no problem with paying child support. But I can't stand behind paying alimony. That shit is retarded. Especially considering that most women work. Married or not.
It is a huge risk and you can never protect yourself 100% in the US.
But for all the talk here in the manosphere of prenups being thrown out (and we SHOULD talk about it) what gets lost in the noise is that the VAST MAJORITY of prenups do NOT get thrown out.
So yes, it is still a huge risk. But with the right attorneys, right prenup, drawn up in the right way in a more than reasonable time frame before a marriage - the risk is mitigated. It is never zero but can be reduced to "almost-acceptable" levels.
What "almost-acceptable" means will vary from individual to individual.
Of course vetting the woman is the single most important factor above all else. If you marry a worthless whore - you will get worthless whore end results. If you marry a saint (who can be trained to be good in bed) then maybe just maybe you can make it long term without getting destroyed.
All in all, way to risky for me and just not worth it, since I am not yearning to have kids. But if I ever change my mind on kids, then I would spend a good two years researching and preparing a pre-nup, BEFORE I even started dating prospects. I would also structure my finances in a series of trusts co-owned by my sister and brother, whom I trust above all limits. In other words I would hide assets LEGALLY. Then, I would only marry a woman who was goddamn near perfect and, like Donald Trump, update the pre-nup every five years.
Or fuck it, just donate some sperm to a sperm bank so my genetics live on and live my life MGTOW style: banging sluts, training jiu-jitsu, travelling the world, making money, hanging out with friends, meditating on mountain tops, smoking pot, dropping acid and enjoying the unconditional love of my dog!
I wish there was a way to combine MGTOW and also pass on your genetics. I personally identify more with the MGTOW movement but where I disagree is the concept of never having children. By not wanting kids you are essentially ensuring your genetics die out, you don't make it to the next round, after millions of years of evolution your blood line dies with you with no ancestors to carry it on. Seems wrong to me, although there is immense risk in marriage/having children - the basic purpose of organisms is to pass on their genetics to the next generation. I see this line of thinking similar to suicide in which the desire to not want to live anymore goes against basic biological function which indicates something is not right with the brains function.
Thats my personal thoughts anyway, take them for what theyre worth
Men are so desperate and stupid. Is having a pussy around the house really worth $500,000+? Apparently it is.
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Shiiiiiit. 10k can change a man's life. It'll change her's too. If you get my drift.
I'm of the opinion that perhaps at least in the USA, and not anywhere else, assuming you want an LTR with kids, it may be possible, although not ideal to have a CEREMONIAL marriage with reasonable trappings, but NO LEGAL marriage.
However, one commenter posted awhile back that in South America, they turn mere cohabitation in to marriage, and who knows what could be brewing in various jurisdictions around the USA. Certainly not me at the moment.
Also, if you get a sham marriage for her social proof, you're still supporting something that ensnares other men, although I guess you could look at it as a Darwinian practice wher you pretend to do something stupid as a competitive strategy to gull other men into doing it.
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I think this story is a population control psyop. It's an old story being brought back up. But realize the following:
(1) She signed the prenup right before the wedding. It's supposed to be 2 months or more, apparently, to show lack of coercion.
(2) He supposedly made this verbal agreement that the prenup would be void when the kids came. Why would that not be in writing? Did he deny it? If he denied it, the judge should have assumed such an agreement did not exist.
(3) Subject to safeguards such as (1), lawyers here have said that a prenup is likely to be ironclad when it comes to alimony or asset division.
(4) And there's little point to living together or being traceable at all, and having kids without marriage. DNA test, paternity proved, you must pay CS regardless of married status. And a prenup can have no effect on this. This is the one area where a prenup does NOT work.
(5) Do check paternity if there's any doubt in your mind. Never ever pay for another man's child.
Fuck this; we need to actually do something about this shit. All these white knight pussy legislators caving into womens demands need to be dealt with and the BS laws they passed reversed. That goes for marriage laws and some rape laws. Nothing will happen until we demand it.
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This is why you never get married, ever if you are a successful man. You get one activist cunt of a judge and bam, prenump thrown out like it was not a legally binding contract because of ma feelz and you are fucked. Family Law among other things has made Marriage a worse investment than buggy whips.
Honestly; if you make 30K a year and you ain't got shit to your name, do it if you get the right chick, fuck it, they can't take blood from a stone, work off the books. But if you are a HNWI you'd have to be insane to place a bet where you lose half your money 60% of the time.
This makes my blood boil. I will read this tomorrow for a good preworkout pump.
This is what keeps me in the rage phase.
Why the fuck do people still get married? The financial benefits are nowhere near good enough to offset the risk of losing more than half of everything.
I would just have her killed. God can judge me not some pompous sjw judge prick.
Easy enough to handle. Include a no oral modifications clause..."all changes, modifications, alternations, or amendments to this agreement must be in written form, signed by both parties to be enforceable."
Sounds like shitty lawyering.
Until the judge decided that your clause is unfair because "muh interpretation"
OP has added "facts" that are not in the linked story, and are suspect.
Read the story, but here's what he said that have no support from the story:
What the story actually says:
There is nothing here that says she "has no proof" - nor does it say she had proof. For all we know, the husband admitted he had said it. Or not. The point is, OP altered the content to be more sensational.
Not that the story doesn't have merit without the alteration. Pre-nup signed, woman had affairs. But the feminine agenda removes all agency from women (one of the stupidest thing they do to themselves). Their method of fighting the "patriarchy" is to give it ALL the power, pretending they are somehow winning.
But hey, logic isn't their forte, even when they say and think it is. There are a few exceptions, but by and large, as with TRP canon in general, it's about the preponderance, and you'll rarely meet one who actually uses logic in any personal way.
How the hell does a judge establish that they made a verbal agreement? It just boils down to "he said, she said". The only way I can see there being any form of proof is if the husband admits to it, which I doubt he did.
There might have been witnesses. Don't count on the press for an accurate story; they just want to get people riled up for more ad views.
It sounds like he came to her with the pre-nup a couple of weeks before the wedding. This is why when doing a pre-nup you must communicate with your future spouse about what it is you two want in it, then seek out separate lawyers and have them draft it together. When one party goes off and gets an attorney to draft something up to their liking, then of course shit will get thrown out. Ultimately, just don't get married, cohabitate if you really desire children and some form of "marriage" life. Just do it in a state that doesn't have common law marriage. Otherwise talk to an attorney about how to protect your assets.
If you have assets and get married in some states "premarital property" as long as not comingled stays with the person who owned it before marriage. Judges seem to rarely fuck with this as its the exact law. Judges seem to like to flex their muscles and prenups are an easier target since they are just contracts to fight about. Best case IF you get married is to be in these states and get a prenup. I have not had any friends not keep their premarital assets in these states even with no prenup. Best is no marriage but if you do strong prenup will often work but you must know their are risks.
What the fuck is wrong with these Beta Billy judges?
How fucked up is our society when any woman can just make up stories and by default be given the benefit of the doubt?
Just for this incident, this man has forfeited his right to life in my opinion. You are doing what was once a sacred duty, overseeing the splitting up of a marriage. This is fucking disgusting, imagine a judge did this against a woman?
A hit would not cost nearly as much as he stands to lose. I would just have her killed.
I think losing your freedom is a much greater cost.
If you pay someone to do it that has no ties to her the risk is pretty low.
They always go after the husband first, especially if a divorce is recent or imminent. That's a very risky game to play.
edit: see this article. One of the most powerful men in Charleston, SC who had plenty of money available was busted because the hit man passed out in the middle of an intersection while looking for drugs and confessed everything. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140805/PC16/140809719
What a dumbass, do it like the Sopranos, give the junkie half the brick of heroin, and then the other half when it's done.
There are dark web sites that provide a variety of services up to and including murder. They use bitcoin to pay for their services
A colleague hired a rent-a-goon to beat up a cyclist that dinged his Mercedes and refused to pay for it. Transfer of funds, and receipt of photos proving that the guy got what was coming for him ensures that both parties are happy. Its not an ideal situation but thankfully the idiot took the same route everyday and wore pretty unique set of clothes. Wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be (note: bit coin fluctuates in price).
I would probably use the same service if I needed to enact some justice but remain arms length away.
Honestly, if he's a savvy individual in real estate he has most of his assets tied up in real estate investments and irrev trusts so that technically nothing is in his name - so she'd only receive the most minimal amount. They could put their entire house into a trust for all we know as the trustees are his family and friends. Just a thought.
Q: How to make a Pre-nup iron clad?
A: By never getting married.
De facto's can also get you pinned down according to laws in some countries, so be careful.
Hookers are way cheaper in the long run and they are always ready for sex and stay perpetually young.
He's got money. He likely has connections. Soon, bitch ass ex-wife will be swimming with the fishes. Problem solved.
How many men will just cut their losses and move on instead of divorce raping their ex? Women are dangerous!
I bet this will get overturned. At least I hope.
He needs to just pay up some grease money bro. $100,000 worth of it.
The fucked up thing is that a prenup has to exist in the first place. The law allows a woman to completely fuck over your career and finances given a divorce is in the daily weather forecast, and now you have to insist that she signs a document to prevent that from happening. What?
The fact that a guy has to insist she signs the documentation just seems to be a set up. It's like him saying "My love, I have a lot of assets and you could potentially steal them from me if you decide you want a divorce or I catch you fucking chad." "You're right hubby let me sign that paperwork so I don't divorce rape you up your ass."
It just seems so fucking backwards to me.. It's like if Target made all of their customers sign some document saying "don't steal from our stores if you don't feel like paying for something."
Well it's a good thing a legal contract can be dismissed based on the word of a lying, cheating bitch with the mind of a child.
This is why I now say that if you are a rich man, why in the fuck would you get married? A good whore is worth her pay, and worth her weight in gold.
Here's my plan if I ever get rich: I'm gonna find the hottest, cleanest hooker and pay her something like 120k per year to give it up on demand, whenever I want, with the option for her to leave at any point, with a bonus if she refers a sufficient replacement upon leaving.
Seriously, why would anyone want a wife at this point? What do western girls have to offer other than sex? They can't offer companionship, as they are nothing but ruthless competitors. They can't cook. They aren't honest. They don't know how to even clean a house, and if you're a rich man, you can afford a maid.
Western girls are only good for sex, and if you're a rich man, just buy a whore and put her on contract. A 6-figure salaried whore is still cheaper than marriage.
this really isn't a bad idea.. When I consider the average cost of dating, this idea sounds more and more appealing..
I'm telling you, bro. American girls have nothing to offer. Though, if you're rich and famous, you won't need hookers, and can afford to just take a flight to Ukraine or Russia and grab a wife up from there. Either way, even with those options, this method is still soooo much better than dating or marriage. The hassle you save is worth the price in and of itself.
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Of course, if you're a rich man, this (plating) is a far more viable option than if you're a regular joe. In fact, I'd say you should combine both. Have your personal whore, and plate whatever you feel like. I will say again, a good whore is worth her pay. Especially if she can shut the fuck up. Also, with my method here, there is no ambiguity. She's there to do a job, and she knows she can't fuck around, or she's gonna lose a sweet meal ticket.
But as you said, "Why buy the cow when the milk is free?" Because the milk is never free. First rule of economics: Nothing is free.
The real question to me is: how in the world do you write up a prenup that doesn't have provisions for adultery? That's like...the whole point.
It doesn't matter what the prenup said, because she got it thrown out.
Wouldn't matter, even if one was drafted, she lied and had the prenup thrown out.
If there was a clause in there making it clear that the agreement can only be modified if done in writing and it got tossed anyways, what the actual fuck.
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And tell this story to any woman as a reason for not wanting to marry even with a prenup and she will say, "NAWALT".
And when she says, "NAWALT" you know she IS like that.
I'd reply with the firearm analogy.
"NAWALT and NAFAL (Not All Firearms Are Loaded), but it would be folly not to treat them as they were. That's basic safety/the precautionary principle & what prevents your balls getting shot off."
We need to keep repeating this again and again.
Real Marriage is now Illegal
The original Marriage 1.0 contract specifically protected men from loss of children and loss of property.
In the old days they would say:
Until death us do part.
...but today the laws have been rewritten and now one might say:
When our gay feelings of love fade we part.
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I've thought that a better idea might be to simply promise that if a woman produced two or three biologically proven offspring (test the DNA with an actual paternity test) then you would reward her biological fidelity with a marriage contract.
Once the babies are born and proven so you aren't a cuckold the laws are pretty much equal either way. The only difference would be alimony. Child support is required whether married or not.
The prime reason to avoid marriage is to be certain of your DNA in the children so you don't end up a stupid cuckold for Chad the Cad ThunderCock.
And if you don't want kids then that's yet another reason not to marry.
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don't get married
The prenup was signed just a few days before the wedding. That's a surefire way to get the prenup thrown out in court.
Prenup 101: Get it signed a long time before the wedding.
He either got shit legal advice, or he ignored it.
I actually signed a contract AT THE CLOSING of my house that had stipulations I didn't like. Get that fucking thing thrown out!
Sounds like you had a horrible real-estate agent. My agent went through every letter, space, crossed-T and dotted-I, three times, before I initialed any page of the contract. We redlined plenty too.
It didn't really happen. It was just an analogy.
When I read this story again, it says that she initially did not sign the pre-nup and signed it just days before the wedding. This means that he gave her the pre-nup well in advance and she knew that he wanted her to sign it. She was not pressured to sign it at the last moment.
I think it is entirely possible that she knew that a pre-nup signed just before the wedding would not be enforced. He gave her the pre-nup in advance and she just dilly-dallied with it, with the explicit intent of making wedding preparations first and then signing it at the last moment. Looking at it this way, she was not coerced. In fact, HE was manipulated into making wedding preparations first while she led him on that she would sign the pre-nup. At the last minute she tells him that she would sign the pre-nup only if he promises to revoke it after the kids are born. Think about this, he has probably invested more into the wedding financially and can be pressured into not calling it off at the last moment.
I'm not saying it is fair. I personally think the whole "coerced just days before the wedding" argument is silly, it is just a wedding not a gun to the head.
But this is how prenups work. Sign it just before the wedding and it will get thrown out. This is Prenups 101 and that is what this story is about. The cheating is irrelevant.
Again, I'm not saying I agree.
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I'm not versed in family law maybe someone can answer this question for me. Is there an appeal process if one disagrees with the ruling?
Yes, but judges are allowed a lot of leeway in family law under the pretense of "best interests" and "being equitable" so many cases are never appealed because of the expense.
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Oh god. Once the feminist activist judges find out about LAT no man is safe.
Would having his assets placed outside of her reach in foreign accounts help? Or having set up a trust for himself? Other than not getting married, for the person dead set on self-rape whats the best course of action to ensure that they get lube and a reach-around?
Quit your job or make sure you're underemployed so that the wife will be the breadwinner, and when she divorces you (because she will because you don't make enough) she'll owe you instead of the other way around.
When you have over 1 million dollars in your bank account, a red book should arrive mysteriously in your mail and detail every red pill truth.
I need someone with law expierence explain to me how an admitted cheating whore gets alimony? She broke the grounds of marriage, how does she get shit?
most states are no-fault. A woman can fuck another man right on your lap, run down to the court house and file for divorce and the infidelity won't even be an issue.
That concept is so archaic. Poor bastard!
Can't we just get politicians to repeal all alimony laws? They are outdated in modern times. Women can work at nearly any job a man can.
Many states have, and many states are trying. One of the big issues is that most politicians are lawyers and lawyer's income will suffer with changes in alimony so they don't want to harm their peers too much...if at all.
Thats a very good point. Honour among theives, perhaps?
No wonder you didn't mention the only important bit here...:
They made a verbal contract - and the husband reneged on that contract. That's why the judge threw it out - because they agreed that it would be thrown out, yet the husband was dishonest and didn't do it.
So she says. There's no proof presented that proves this is what happened.
A verbal contract with no proof? Binding? Hardly
The key takeaway that some people dont understand is that a prenup is mostly used as guidance by the judge to aid in their decision - it can be ignored at will.
The story doesn't say whether he agreed that he had made this verbal contract. It's important of course. If he disputed making that contract, he should win. Maybe the "parol evidence rule" applies here, that if a contract is in writing, amendments must also be in writing. That's what I recall of business law, any lawyers can chime in here ...
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I would like to see a better legal analysis. But the story says she signed the prenup just days before the wedding.
I've read here and elsewhere that the prenup should be signed at least two months before the wedding. This is how you rebut the idea of coercion.
Not blaming the guy, maybe this wasn't known at the time. Hope he gets it reversed. The ex wife is a bitch.
What I don't get is this guy is RICH... couldn't he have got Johnny Cochran Divorce Lawyer or something? Or did he just assume Open/Shut and his lawyer on retainer was good enough?
Did the movie liar liar not cover this? Might be wrong, defo not going to check... Lazy is I
Protect your assets.
You can do this if you own nothing.
Some families I know do this with trusts their parents own and operate, and then buy the house/car/etc and keep it in their (parents') name. Kid owns nothing. Not beneficiary on anything. Nothing to legally go after since it's all in the parents' name.
I've not seen any cases where someone was able to successfully sue the parents for (and receive) money.
Protect yourself!
Women aren't responsible for their own decisions, dontchaknow?
This is a case of him losing frame. Verbal agreements are binding, and he made one with her when he explicitly told her that he would throw it out. When you're a millionaire man you don't make promises like that, you say "take it or leave it bitch." She would have agreed to the prenup as it was, he just needed to have a spine and follow through completely.
I think the worst part of that is she could have been lying because she had no evidence that he ever said he'd get rid of the prenup
Cringe Fest© https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMTOmSD6bk
Wow, there is no reason at all now to get married. There is no protection. The rule is don't marry without a prenup and even then be careful... well now prenups are shot. This is like telling people "Don't fuck without a condom" but condoms have a 50% failure rate and every person you fuck has an STD.
Just wow... Are all judges so beta or why is it happening? I lost it...
So what does a prenup do then ?? Just a bait ?
This is not merely a sign of anti-men, it's more of a sign of the endless corruption that lives in our culture.
That corruption of values that is always about seeking power, at any cost, regardless of who it affects.
Lord Acton said it best, "Absolute Power, Corrupts Absolutely".
This case like many many others, is truly tragic.
Because there are multiple victims here, the children, the man, and I bet that woman will never really be happy, because of her endless pursuit for money vs a real relationship.
Cases like this truly destroy families. And that is sad.
Solution: don't be richer than your wife ;-)
I would legitimately murder if this was done to me. Life in prison would be worth it.
Once again, I came here clean, and once again, leave TRP enraged. That's why I'll never get married, you'd never be sure enough if this is going to work out. Relying in humans is dumb, relying in women is beyond stupidity.
I'm very tired of seeing stories like this. It's just not worth it any more for people. I happen to be married. I'm pretty good about game so I don't anticipate that's going to go south, but I just can't say the same for young men any more. For a long time I was pretty accepting of people who wanted to get married but, at this point, I just can't do it any more. I will now ACTIVELY discourage my friends and family from getting married. I won't do it at the dinner table but I'll find some way. I'll do the same on Reddit and in my online presence. It's just not worth it for young men any more until this shit changes.
YOU HAVE TO GET THE PRE-NUP SIGNED 30 DAYS BEFORE THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE IS SIGNED GENIUSES THAT'S WHY IT WAS TOSSED OUT UNDER "DURESS"!!!!!
guys there are simple ways to fix this, hiding money is an American past time. I know not all of you are American, but if half my fortune was at stake, id figure out a way to hide that shit quick
Question: assuming this guy's SMV is high as fuck, what is the reason why a post-wall wife would leave him?
Do the divorce incentives outweigh her hypergamous desire to stay with this millionaire when she doesn't have the looks to do better?
being a milionaire doesnt mean high smv, its just high one of the aspects of smv. for all we know he could be the betamax
Is this cross posted in /pussypass?
This sounds very American, not like this in other countries.
I know this is late but couldn't you appeal to higher a court?