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301: Why You’re (Probably) Wrong About Prenups

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

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You Already Have a Prenup, You've Got a Prin Up

If you don't want somebody else to dictate how your money is divided, then you need to do it with a prenup. The state's rules that you are probably defaulting to are some of the most unintuitive and potentially unfair things that you can imagine. If i go get a rental property, if it's meant to be a joint asset, we'll put it in joint names. In that way, everyone knows where they stand at any given time with respect to the finances based on how something's titled. It makes the untangling if things go south much, much easier. But it also makes managing it during the marriage itself a lot easier as well.

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