Prenups

An episode of the In the Balance podcast, hosted by BBC World Service, titled "Prenups" was published on September 1, 2018 and runs 26 minutes.

September 1, 2018 ·26m · In the Balance

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Would you sign a divorce contract before you got married? Should you? They’re often seen as unnecessary, unromantic, and irreligious, but we hear how prenuptial agreements are on the rise, and not just among the super-rich.

We speak to a newly-wed who signed a prenup with her now husband to protect her business interests. One of the UK’s top divorce lawyers tells us they are often better than the default divorce provisions laid out by governments. And a lawyer in Nigeria explains how she’s trying to use them to protect women’s rights.

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