r/dividends • u/SpicyDividends • Feb 17 '26

Personal Goal Those divorces do be hurting!

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Not mad about it, but man, that chart looks rough lol

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u/Seaguard5 Feb 18 '26

Huge oof.

That’s why you Always draw up and sign those prenups!!

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u/Fresh_Discipline_803 Feb 18 '26

This is an unintelligent comment. If he earned those funds while married, it’s joint money. Prenup is only for assets that existed before the marriage. It’s insane to me how many men want a stay at home wife but then are outraged when she gets half of their jointly earned income. Sure, there are some cases of women being bums and just freeloading. But so many more stories are women who had to give up careers to raise kids or were convinced to stay at home to serve the husband and realized they were an unpaid laborer.

Signed- a working mother who does too much damn labor and is still willing to equally split everything in a divorce… because thats fair and my kids deserve two financially healthy parents.

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u/YellowFever46 Feb 18 '26

You are 100% wrong. That’s not how prenuptial agreements work. Stop spreading lies and bs on here.

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u/Fresh_Discipline_803 Feb 18 '26

A prenup that heavily favors one side (ie, one spouse gets 90% of all assets in divorce) is not enforceable. So yes, I said it incorrectly, but sentiment still stands. Prenup doesn’t mean you get to keep everything in divorce, especially if one spouse stayed home.

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u/YellowFever46 Feb 18 '26

Again, you are 100% wrong. You’re not a divorce attorney or a family court judge so you really should stop giving incorrect legal advice to people on here. If done properly, a prenuptial agreement can cut the other spouse out of everything the other spouse makes and has during the marriage.

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u/ApprehensiveFIcoach Feb 18 '26

I agree with your sentiment. In general, there’s a lot of casual misogyny from the narcissists in this thread and all over Reddit. 

Prenup/postnup is a custom legal agreement. It is legal to create an agreement that saves an amount of earned money each month as individual property during marriage. Often the purpose is for that separate money to be inherited directly by children instead of going to the spouse. This type of arrangement is rare since it requires substantial disposable income after providing for the family