Does Every Marriage Need a Prenup?
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. In olden times, meaning about a decade ago, asking your intended spouse to sign a financial agreement, a prenup, carried with it a whiff of scandal, I think.
This was a plot line from Seinfeld. George Costanza asked his fiancee Susan to sign a prenup, hoping she'd get so mad that she'd be the one to call off their wedding. A prenup? Yeah. What's so funny?
You don't have any money. I make more money than you do. Yeah, give me the papers, I'll sign them. But times have changed. Jennifer Wilson just reported a piece on prenups for The New Yorker, and during her reporting she found that younger couples now embrace prenups wholeheartedly, for a whole complicated mix of reasons.
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