As a matrimonial practitioner, I have seen litigants make serious mistakes, particularly when they do not have
the protection of a prenuptial agreement or never established an asset protection trust prior to marriage.
Not exact matches
Prenuptial agreements have now become a crucial way to ensure the
protection of assets, something which is important for all individuals intending to marry to be aware
of.
In addition to offering
protection from having to give up one's property during the course
of a divorce, a
prenuptial agreement can also serve the purpose
of, for example, protecting the inheritance
of a person's beloved children from a prior relationship.
A
prenuptial agreement often exists in a high asset divorce in Kentucky and everywhere else in the U.S. because
of the
protection that it can provide to a couple.
Prenuptial agreements are a type
of asset
protection strategy.
Recent posts include discussions about orders
of protection for dogs, invalidating
prenuptial agreements due to alleged mental illness and marriages being
of shorter duration.
Mr. Hafen's practice includes advice regarding sophisticated tax, estate, asset
protection, and business planning strategies, including the preparation
of documents such as wills, living trusts, durable powers
of attorney, healthcare directives, asset
protection trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, gift programs, grantor retained annuity trusts, education trusts, family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, generation - skipping transfers, charitable giving, charitable remainder trusts, private foundations, property
agreements, and
prenuptial and postnuptial
agreements.
Ken handles family and matrimonial matters, including divorce, separation,
prenuptial agreements, post-nuptial
agreements, parental access, custody, visitation, child support, property settlement
agreements, paternity, neglect, family offenses, orders
of protection as well as all other Family and Supreme Court domestic relation law cases.
Because
prenuptial agreements can be challenged in court, even that form
of protection may not be enough.
Over the past 30 plus years we have helped over 10,000 clients with the following family law matters: annulment, contested divorce, uncontested divorce, divorce by publication, legal separation,
prenuptial agreement, postnuptial
agreement, family court, child support, child custody, child visitation, spousal support, division
of material property, paternity, and order
of protection.
Jennifer L. Lavin, P.C. is a divorce and family law firm located in Chicago, Illinois and represents clients located in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and Will counties in all aspects
of family law, including but not limited to Divorce, Child Support, Allocation
of Parental Responsibilities and Parenting Time, Maintenance, Property Division, Post-Decree Litigation, Paternity, Same - Sex Marriage, Legal Separation, Orders
of Protection,
Prenuptial and Postnuptial
Agreements, and Collaborative Law.