Kyle Rizdahl

Shared bank accounts, joint property, tax filing, the list, as you know, goes on.

Shared bank accounts, joint property, tax filing, the list, as you know, goes on.

Sometimes, though, it all falls apart, and all those economic ties need to be untied.

Sometimes, though, it all falls apart, and all those economic ties need to be untied.

A good prenup can ease things along if and when that happens, and it turns out millennials and Gen Zers love them some prenups.

A good prenup can ease things along if and when that happens, and it turns out millennials and Gen Zers love them some prenups.

Jennifer Wilson wrote about that in The New Yorker the other day.

Jennifer Wilson wrote about that in The New Yorker the other day.

Jennifer, welcome to the program.

Jennifer, welcome to the program.

Just by way of background, we'll get to what they are now, but remind us what prenups used to be, would you?

Just by way of background, we'll get to what they are now, but remind us what prenups used to be, would you?

Well, prenups haven't fundamentally changed.

Well, prenups haven't fundamentally changed.

A prenuptial agreement is essentially a private contract in which a couple decides that whatever the existing divorce laws are on the books, they don't want those applying to how they divide assets and property in the event of the divorce or how they decide to handle things like spousal support.

A prenuptial agreement is essentially a private contract in which a couple decides that whatever the existing divorce laws are on the books, they don't want those applying to how they divide assets and property in the event of the divorce or how they decide to handle things like spousal support.

It's sort of a carve out for an individual couple.

It's sort of a carve out for an individual couple.

But you are correct that more recently those carve outs are looking a little different.

But you are correct that more recently those carve outs are looking a little different.