Prenuptial Agreements Legal Answers

My fiance is from Sudan and has very little in the way of assets. He is coming to the U.S. to marry me and will be starting over in terms of a career. I have done well financially and am a part-owner in a family business. My family is pressuring me to have him sign a prenup that guarantees he would not get any of our business if we divorce. I love him and want to help him get an education here in the states and have a good career and life. Even if our marriage didn’t work out, I would not want to be unfair to him, but I understand my family’s concerns. If my fiance is willing to sign a prenuptial agreement, would it even be valid if he is signing it when he is not yet a U.S. citizen? Could I even enforce it?

I want a simple prenup before I get married that says I keep whatever is in my name if the marriage breaks up and she keeps whatever is in her name. If we buy something jointly, we split it equally. I don’t want to go into detail in the prenup because I have a lot of assets she doesn’t know about. I’m concerned that if she finds out, she’ll never sign a prenup. If she does sign a simple prenup under these terms and finds out later about the other properties I have, will the prenup still be valid?

My girlfriend has a history of cheating on me. We’ve been to counseling and I think we’ve worked on things and I do want to ask her to marry me. But I am still concerned about her history and if she’d commit adultery after we marry. If I get her to sign a prenup that says if she cheats on me and that causes us to divorce, she automatically gets nothing from the marriage – would that agreement be valid? I have no problem being fair in a divorce and dividing things up equally if we divorce for any reason other than her being unfaithful. But if she is, I want to be able to get out of the marriage quickly and without a lot of cost. I also need an Arabic speaking lawyer in the San Diego area to write this up, my wife’s English is not great.

My wife and I live in San Francisco and I work for a start-up tech company. The company has the potential to become very large and profitable. My wife and I signed a prenup before we married. I have some technology patents that I acquired before we married, and now my company may be interested in moving forward with some of my ideas and products. We didn’t specifically reference my patents in the prenup. I honestly didn’t even think about them at the time. If the patents do become valuable and my wife and I were to divorce, does she have an interest in them? If that is a possibility, is there anything I can do to amend the prenup so that the patents remain my property regardless of what happens to the marriage?

I am from Chicago and my soon to be husband is from Morocco. He is here in the United States on a work visa. I am pregnant with our first child and we will be married before the baby is born. My fiancé wants me to sign a prenup that says no matter what happens with our marriage, I will grant him equal custody of our child. I am concerned about doing this and he is able to take the child to Morocco once his name is on the birth certificate, and possibly even register the child as a Moroccan citizen? Can child custody be included in a prenup and is there any way to include language preventing my future husband from taking our child out of the country without my permission, whether we are married or not?

My fiancé is a U.S. citizen and I am not. He is very wealthy and says he won’t marry me if I don’t sign a prenup agreement saying I get nothing if we divorce. If I move to the U.S. to be with him I will have no job. If he cheats on me and divorces me while I am in the U.S. I will have nothing – no way to support myself. My English is not good and I’ve asked him to have this agreement drafted in Arabic so I can read and understand it. He claims he can’t find an Arabic lawyer to do it. How do I go about finding a lawyer to translate this document for me and tell me whether I should sign it or not? We live in Philadelphia.