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Prenuptial Agreements • Cohabitation Agreements • Post-Nuptials
The purpose of a prenuptial agreement or cohabitation agreement is to address issues of property ownership up front and avoid litigation should the relationship end. The law firm of Raphael, Ramsden & Behers, P.C. provides the sophisticated knowledge to draft, review and enforce these documents for your legal protection and peace of mind.
Members of our firm literally wrote the book on prenuptial agreements, as some of our attorney’s publications on this topic are used to train lawyers throughout Pennsylvania. Contact us today about creating or enforcing such an agreement. We represent clients throughout the Pittsburgh area, Allegheny County and surrounding Western Pennsylvania.
- Prenuptial agreements make perfect sense if you are getting remarried or are entering your first marriage with considerably more assets than your future spouse. The document protects your premarital assets and can also address the division of assets with the intention of avoiding litigation should the relationship end. A prenuptial agreement also can protect a family business and preserve inheritance rights for children from the previous marriage.
- Post-nuptial agreements can be drafted at any point after you are married. Common scenarios include: protecting a business that one partner has built, providing for a child's education, dividing assets among couples who are not divorcing, and splitting retirement accounts if one spouse is retiring early.
- Cohabitation agreements apply in non-marital situations with same-sex or opposite-sex couples who are living together but not legally married. These agreements can address, among other issues, assets and debts, shared expenses, titling of property, and provisions for a dissolution or death of a partner.
Prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements are complex contracts that must be comprehensive and carefully crafted in order to withstand a challenge in court. We have successfully challenged poorly written agreements drafted by others and successfully defended prenups that our firm constructed.
We sit down with clients to consider all the possibilities and life-changing events that might arise, whether you are initiating the prenup or you are considering signing one proposed by another party.
Call our Pittsburgh law office at 866-790-9784 or 412-567-5460 for thorough, timely legal advice on this critically important document. Feel free to also contact us online.
