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 Nothing can kill romance faster than the word prenup.
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About one in three of all first marriages ending in divorce, and 50 percent of second or third ones hitting the skids, a prenup is smart financial planning, legal and financial experts say.
Think of it as a business arrangement or as an insurance policy to help remove some of the emotion that´s naturally involved.
Marriage is not just an emotional and physical union - it´s also a financial union.
A prenup and the discussions that go with it can help ensure the financial well-being of the marriage.
A prenuptial accord is a contract between two people about to wed that spells out how assets will be distributed in the event of divorce or death.
Such agreements have existed for thousands of years in some form or another, particularly in European and Far Eastern cultures, where royal families have always made provisions for protecting their wealth.
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 American property tycoon Donald Trump has a message for newly-engaged singer Britney Spears - "get a prenuptial agreement" before she weds dancer Kevin Federline.
THE APPRENTICE reality TV star lost $25 million (GBP 13.8 million) to first wife IVANA in 1990 and made sure he signed a prenup with second wife MARLA MAPLES. The stunning model walked away after seven years of marriage with a $2 million (GBP 1.1 million) payoff.
Trump proposed to Slovenian beauty MELINIA KNAUSS in April (04), while Spears agreed to marry her boyfriend of three months in June (04) after a whirlwind romance.
In an interview, Trump says, "I heard Britney Spears is not going to have a prenuptial agreement. She´s making a huge mistake. Just a huge, traumatic and potentially ruinous mistake. You have to have it. You´re just doing yourself a tremendous disservice if you don´t have a prenuptial agreement. It´s a horrible instrument. It´s a horrible thing to be talking to your future bride or husband for the next 100 years and you say, Darling, when we get divorced, this is what is going to be. It´s all horrible. But if you don´t have it, it´s just a tremendous mistake."
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