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Well that's just it- the conditions of divorces are overwhelmingly more dicey than they were when people originally married. It is impossible for people in good faith to reasonably divvy up any conceivable split between them.
If you own a vintage car collection and she collect pieces of original art, yeah. You fucking better get a prenup- those things can't be liquidated and divided in any expedient manner, and such items can be considered 'priceless' in a sense- sketch that shit out.
Requiring every couple to itemize their every asset would be fucking silly, and requires an frankly oppressive sort of arbitration to sort. Say you both own a really nice bed - maybe an heirloom canopy bed from Brazil or something - and hell yeah, that's been in your family for 3 generations, you want to keep that sucker. But then your spouse cheats on you in the same bed, and you don't want it anymore because fuck that asshole. Why even bother with the prenup?
Obviously things get extra sticky when there are children involved, and yeah, it's not limited to mere financial support. But maybe you are leaving your spouse because they have a severe drinking problem they refuse to address. The clarity of what agreement you made from before you were even married just isn't going to have any practical bearing on current conditions, all the more so when it comes to the less tangible things, like visitation rights.
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