Prenuptial Agreement

A prenuptial agreement, also called an antenuptial or premarital agreement, is a written contract entered into by a couple before marriage or a civil union that lets them select and control many of the legal rights they acquire on marrying and what happens if the marriage ends by death or divorce. Couples use a written prenuptial agreement to supersede the default marital laws that would otherwise govern matters such as the division of property, retirement benefits, and savings, and the right to seek alimony, replacing them with agreed terms that provide certainty. A premarital agreement may also include a waiver of a surviving spouse's right to claim an elective share of a deceased spouse's estate. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/