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Continuing Support Obligations

The message to those attempting to fix their post-divorce support obligations in a prenup negotiated and executed prior to the marriage is to be thoughtful, to be thorough, and to fully contemplate the full panoply of events that might occur between marriage and divorce to affect a party's ability to support himself or herself in the event of a divorce.

19 minute read October 29, 2012 at 04:24 PM
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Alton L. Abramowitz, Leigh Baseheart Kahn and Atty K. Bruggemann
Continuing Support Obligations

Couples often enter into prenuptial agreements in an effort to control their financial responsibilities in the event of a divorce. Or they place their reliance on settlement agreements or judicial support awards, thinking that these have set in stone their continuing support obligations.

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