About a month ago, I was contacted by an editor of the Times Publication, a Phoenix community newspaper that publishes about 125,000 issues monthly throughout the Valley. She was researching an article on prenups, and I was excited to be asked to contribute. The article, which you can read on-line here, unfortunately does more to spread the sensational negative side of prenups, than provide the facts I was hoping for. Still, I guess free publicity is good publicity. At least she accurately addressed the growing trend and some positive reasons for having one.
The truth is that the behavioral clauses she talks about, the ones in which unnamed celebrities purportedly require weight limits and sex minimums, with financial repercussions for non-compliance, are not only uncommon, they are usually unenforceable. The thing to understand is that a prenup really is only limited by your imagination. It is yours to create, otherwise you acquiesce in some stranger deciding the terms of your marriage for you. However, your focus should be on your finances, leaving the "lifestyle" agreements to a private letter between you and your partner.
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