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Prenuptial agreements get such a bad rep and before you predict and judge where this post is going, lend me your ears gentleladies and men… Ahem… My cousin in France got married in 2001 and she told me she and her dear fiance drafted a prenupt.  Okay, aren’t the French known for things romantic?  But a prenupt?  This is her reasoning:

“We stated in the prenupt that what is his is his and what is mine is mine.  As a physician, I am at risk for getting sued one day and that person may take everything away from us.  With this legal binding agreement/document they can take all of my finances if it gets that far but they CAN NOT touch his finances.  This way the kid’s college funds are safe, we can keep the house, the car, and even the dog!  We are protecting ourselves from other people not each other.”

Wow.  So really this new idea of a prenupt is to protect the couple not from themselves but from the people that may threaten to take their financial stability away from them!  My fiance and I are planning on drafting our own along these lines as I am graduating from medical school next year and our state does not have a malpractice cap - yikes!  I also know very good physicians who got sued for no good reason and I think it would be wise to get this done.  Does anyone have experience with these legal matters?  Did this idea change how you view prenupts?

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