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Prenuptial agreement NY is the first step many people take when they are about to get married. A prenuptial agreement should outline exactly what each person brings into the marriage and what each person expects to get out of the marriage if there happens to be a divorce before ‘death do us part’.

Many lawyers are seeing prenuptial agreements that are going far beyond the normal listings of who gets what, some go as far as to make arrangements for during the marriage such as how many children there will be and how they will be raised or even the chores and how much sex to have each month.   

If a married couple can not live together peacefully, then the courts typically suggest a couple work out a separation agreement NYC first before moving on to an actual divorce. This will give the couple a chance to try and work things out if they so choose or to proceed with a divorce. Some states require that a couple have a trial separation while others grant a divorce without a waiting period.

If there are unusual circumstances that need to be addressed, then a judge might grant a couple a divorce rather than have them stay married longer than they need or want to be. For example, if one of the spouses is in the military and shipping overseas, then this would be cause for an immediate divorce grant. Another circumstance would be if there is abuse in the marriage or one of the spouses is in prison.

There are not many uncontested divorce NYC because most married people who are soon to be divorced feel as though they are being cheated out of something, especially money, so they fight for whatever they can get and that is what is contested in divorce cases. Uncontested divorces are typically those who are elderly people and have already split up their assets or perhaps one is going into a nursing home. The other type is younger people who have not been married that long and who have not accumulated enough items, wealth or children to argue over.