How to Create a Strong Prenup in Texas
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 […]
How to Break a Prenup in Texas
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 […]
Are You Making These 15 Asset Protection Mistakes?
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 Prenuptial Agreements: Don’t Make These Mistakes
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 […]
13 Creditor Protected Assets in Texas
Texas is known as being a haven for debtors, going back to before it was even a US state. Protections for debtors against creditors run through Texas history and inform the state constitution. In an interview with Dallas Morning News, one advisor for JPMorgan called Texas one of the most debtor-friendly states, and said that […]