With Britney Spears being spared from paying her ex-husband millions of dollars, thanks to their ironclad agreement, we ask…
YES
’It’s sensible future planning’
Emma Parsons-Reid, 56, lives in Cardiff with her husband Kevin, 62, and is an ambassador for The Big Lunch.
Offering to sign a prenup when my husband Kevin and I married over 20 years ago was what got him down the aisle! After a previous bad experience, Kevin was sceptical about getting married. We even broke up for a short while because of his nervousness about committing to someone.
But when I realised that it had nothing to do with me and everything to do with his past experiences, I made an appointment with a solicitor in town so that we could get a prenup. I’d heard of them before and thought it was the perfect solution, only the solicitor explained that in the UK they were pretty much pointless – at least for us. Prenup agreements can be vetoed in court, and in the event of divorce our assets would be divided evenly anyway, so there seemed little point in going through with it.
But it was my intent to sign one that quieted Kevin’s fears. Perhaps if I was a younger bride, and hadn’t already been married twice before, I would have found the thought of a prenup unromantic, but it’s sensible future planning. And I know I would never leave my marriage with more than my fair share, so what’s the harm in signing a document saying so?
✣ edenprojectcommunities. com/the-big-lunch
NO ‘They suggest a lack of trust’
Clare O’Reilly, 43, from Plymouth, has been married to husband Jon, 51, for 16 years.
When Jon proposed while we were sitting on the sofa watching an Elvis Presley documentary in 2002, I
