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Originally Posted by GGG
You should sign pre-nups / cohabitation agreement. That can protect your assets you are bringing into the marriage
Even with one after six months you become common law and have all the liabilities of marriage.
Then you need to define things like rent. Even with a pre-nup if she is paying into the mortgage or paying bills in place of paying the mortgage she could be entitled to her share of the property she paid down and potentially appreciation of the property.
So if you do nothing and things go south she could be entitled to portions of your assets and even depending on length spousal support. Everyone should talk to a lawyer before moving in or getting married if they have assists.
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I’m curious about this. If you own a place already and it’s fully furnished and everything and then she moves in, on what grounds would she be owed a part of your assets?
If she pays $500 a month to live with you, isn’t that way cheaper than she’d be able to pay for her own place? She needs to live somewhere and if she’s currently paying let’s say $1000 a month and she saves $500 a month living with you, why would she be entitled to an asset you owned before she ever moved in?
In any scenario she’s coming out way ahead of where she’d be on her own. Further ahead than you are by collecting such piddly rent from her.
Now if she helps pay for furniture, upgrades to the home etc, then yeah it makes sense. Otherwise it seems quite odd.
Does it depend on how much she pays in rent? If she’s getting a huge discount on market rate it seems quite odd.
All of this assumes there are no children and you’re both working adults.
And that’s not even getting into spousal support, which is a whole other can of worms.