Stuart Walzer, family law attorney & author
A comprehensive and well-written guide that will greatly help couples - and lawyers - in drafting prenuptial agreements.


Book Description
Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms -- unless you create your own customized premarital agreement. Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. The book covers: *the basics of prenups *whether a prenup is right for your relationship *how to decide what a prenup should include *every state's laws about prenups and marital property *how to assemble a draft agreement *how to turn your draft into a contract *tips on negotiating and communicating Prenuptial Agreements provides worksheets to help you and your fiance determine what your prenup should cover, plus clauses for preparing an agreement that suits your needs.


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"Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms -- unless you create your own customized premarital agreement. Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with while explaining how to create a valid contract. The book covers: the basics of prenups whether a prenup is right for your relationship how to decide what a prenup should include every state's laws about prenups and marital property how to assemble a draft agreement how to turn your draft into a contract tips on negotiating and communicating Prenuptial Agreements provides worksheets to help you and your fiancé determine what your prenup should cover, plus clauses for preparing an agreement that suits your needs.


About the Author
Katherine E. Stoner is an attorney/mediator in private practice with the firm of Stoner, Welsh & Schmidt in Pacific Grove, California. In addition to mediation, her practice includes consulting attorney services for clients who are in mediation. Ms. Stoner is a Certified Family Law Specialist, who teaches community property at Monterey College of Law and is on the training staff of the Center for Mediation and Law in Mill Valley, California. She has lectured extensively on family law and mediation. Shae Irving graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. She did a brief stint at a San Francisco law firm before she turned and ran screaming toward Nolo. She is the co-author of the Legal Manual that accompanies Nolo's WillMaker software. In addition, she edits many Nolo titles, including Nolo's Everyday Law Book, Nolo's Pocket Guide to California Law and Estate Planning Basics.

SYNOPSIS

Stoner is an attorney and mediator in private practices; Irving holds a law degree from U. of California-Berkeley, and edits many Nolo titles. Their practical guide is designed to help couples who are planning to marry to decide whether or not they want a prenup, what terms to include in it, and how to put the terms into a legally binding document—with the assistance of attorneys—which, as the material and financial counterpoint to their wedding vows, supports and reflects the same spirit of partnership with which the couple approaches those vows. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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