Prenuptial, antenuptial, or premarital agreements are more than forms you print off on LegalZoom or similar sites. Printing off a document and flitting it off can leave critical assets unprotected or prevent you from following all the best practices in Texas for your prenup. A strong prenup can preclude a court from striking any clause down and enforcing the wishes…
Planning for complete asset protection in Texas can be a varied process when strategy takes the place over form. Forming a prenuptial agreement in Texas and getting that together can be the first step in protecting assets on the relationship side of things. After forming a prenuptial agreement, the next natural question is straightforward: how can you break a…
When two people join together in marriage, they aim to combine their lives, but they enter that arrangement with separate lives, jobs, property, income, and assets. One party may enter a relationship with an inheritance; another may have built a life through business or talent. The point is that people may have things in their lives they either want…
Asset protection is a broad area of law that tries to shield assets from creditors and other parties. The American Bar Association says that asset protection is for “high-risk occupations (i.e., doctors and real estate developers) and very wealthy individuals that realize they are targets for creditors.” And while that’s true generally, in states like Texas, many of the…
If you’re a business owner moving to a new state like Texas and taking your LLC with you, one question can be at the top of your mind: how to legally bring the company with you. A common situation is maintaining registration in Delaware, and moving to a new state. Perhaps you want to maintain legal status in your…
Within popular culture, prenuptial agreements often get presented as a hurdle to true love or marriage. In the 2003 romantic screwball comedy movie, Intolerable Cruelty, George Clooney and Catherin Zeta-Jones’s characters dramatically rip apart prenuptial agreements as a sign of their love. But this is an overly simplistic view of what can be an essential tool in protecting a…
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