If you're divorcing your husband—the first one or from a subsequent marriage—or even if you're breaking up a non-marital domestic partnership, you still may be facing a custody issue…of your pet or pets. But Fido is a family member, not a mere possession.
Prince William and Kate Middleton did not have a prenup, according to "senior royal sources."
Some are calling it foolish, while other say it's a romantic gesture that Prince William refused to sign a prenuptial agreement with his new wife Kate Middleton. While these kinds of legal documents are all the rage with celebrity couples in Hollywood, they're not as common in British law. And besides, the new royal couple hardly seems like the type to need one.
The Playboy Mansion is being prepped for a wedding on June 18. Along with picking out a cake, choosing the decorations and finalizing the ceremony details, there's just one other topic you'd imagine would need to be broached before the over-the-top extravaganza can truly begin—but a certain someone is staying mum. With a mere 10 weeks to go before his big day, Hugh Hefner has not touched on the subject of a prenuptial agreement with his soon-to-be wife, 24-year-old Crystal Harris. And according to sources, he has no plans to do so. For us, this is definitely a shocker.
On Tuesday, March 29th at 9PM ET/PT, CNBC presents “Divorce Wars,” a documentary that explores multi-million dollar divorces through the eyes of several wealthy couples enduring excruciating divorce proceedings. In the CNBC original, correspondent Melissa Francis goes inside the bitter proceedings and explores the couples' engagement in a struggle for power, control, money, and ultimately, revenge. Included in the hour long documentary is the highly-publicized divorce of Justine and Elon Musk—co-creator of Paypal and CEO of Tesla Motors, along with the story of a divorcee who fought an 18 year battle to turn a $750,000 settlement into an eventual $15 million. Divorce lawyers specializing in high net-worth cases weigh in on what it takes to win "on the battlefield of emotional pain and financial gain," as well as two entrepreneurs who have turned the so-called "divorce wars" into a business all its own.
Prenups are a backup plan. Like any other backup plan—the fold-up flats in your purse, tampons in your desk drawer at work, the rape whistle on your keychain—you don't expect to use it, and you really hope not to, but thank God it's there when you need it. For women, divorce is financially dangerous, and you're necessarily subject to a 50 percent chance of suffering from it if you marry.
Need a reason to stay single? Watch my Big Friggin' Wedding on VH1. Just pull up a chair and watch the parade of trashy New Jersey brides-to-be and the men who want nothing to do with weddings. How Jersey can keep fist-pumping out such shocking specimens of humans is beyond me.
Just weeks after his third wife, Camille Donatacci Grammer, filed for divorce, Kelsey Grammer is reportedly "deeply in love" with a young blond British woman named Kate. The New York Post reports that Kelsey was photographed walking hand-in-hand with the woman in New York several times last weekend.
Evan Marc Katz helps a woman whose fiance is not open to the idea of a prenup.
Jesse James spent barely a week in rehab, leaving the Sierra Tucson facility in Arizona last week when Sandra Bullock reportedly refused to take a phone call from him, and then returning to treatment on Sunday.
Matthew McConaughey's girlfriend, Camila Alves, just delivered the couple's second child at the beginning of the month, and now her mom is pushing her to get Matt to make their arrangement legal.
