PRENUPTIAL AND POSTNUPTIAL AGREEMENTS ARE ON THE RISE

Prenuptial Agreement (Photo credit: E.Briel)

Last year – when I was practicing in Georgia - I published a handful of articles regarding the increased usage of premarital agreements and discussed some of the more obvious (and some less than obvious) situations that are amenable to such agreements.  I recently received my Family Law Quarterly, published by the American Bar Association, a substantial portion of which is dedicated to the passage last summer of a uniform law for marital and premarital agreements (Here’s a link to the act itself: http://bit.ly/SWrBSF.  The timing seems right to update last year’s material and to discuss the typical requirements for recognition of prenuptial agreements (and post-nuptial agreements) here in Alaska as the courts have viewed the subject.  In keeping with my New Year’s resolution (yes, I do those), I’ll be posting blogs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays over the next couple weeks to provide some current information and open the subject up for a conversation.  The more feedback we get from different perspectives, the more interesting the conversation.