Whats the difference between making a Premarital Agreement & mediation?
Traditional Way: The typical way of handling premarital agreements is that the fiancé who wants to have a premarital agreement has his or her lawyer draft an agreement which is very favorable to the client asking for the premarital agreement. The recipient attorney then makes many one-sided changes in favor of his or her client (the other fiancé), and then the agreement goes back to the first lawyer, who disagrees with most of the changes. As a result, the agreement is redrafted multiple times… all charged by the hour. Worse yet, the first time the couple sees or discusses the agreement may be after the first draft. Their input into the draft itself may be limited, and mostly guided by the lawyers. Mediation: The Better Way: The fiancés develop a list of issues to discuss with a mediator, and the mediator helps them explore the options and decide how they’d like to handle each issue. Each fiancé may have the help of an individual lawyer during this process, but the agreement is tailo
