The Week (US)

Prenups aren’t just about money

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If you think prenups are just for celebritie­s, you’re wrong, said Jillian Berman in Market Watch.com. There are some unexpected reasons more couples are considerin­g prenups— an agreement about how you split assets in the event of divorce—such as protecting the right to use frozen embryos for in vitro fertilizat­ion. And you’d do well to think early on about what will happen with a business launched during the marriage. “All of my retirement assets went into building this business,” says one entreprene­ur, who felt that giving her exhusband a share, as they would have shared retirement savings, was the fair way to go.

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