Remarriage Facts

19 Jan 2024 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:50

In this short video, the speaker addresses a primarily female audience, warning that widowers are highly likely (61%) to remarry or enter a serious relationship within two years, while widows are far less likely (20%). To protect children’s inheritance from a surviving spouse’s new partner, the speaker recommends two estate‑planning strategies: (1) establishing an irrevocable trust immediately upon death to hold assets for the children, shielding them from ex‑spouses, future spouses, creditors, and lawsuits; and (2) requiring any future spouse to sign a prenuptial agreement, with the trust being created automatically if the agreement is refused. The advice is presented as urgent and practical for those with children.

Chapters

75% of you listening to this are women, so you need to know this. If you're married and you're the first to die, it's very likely that your husband will be remarried or in a serious relationship within 2 years. A clinical psychiatry study showed that to be true for 61% of widowers. So if you have kids, how do you make sure that the money is protected for those kids from the new wife or the new ex-wife? There are 2 very good ways to make sure that the money's protected and that come hell or high water, it makes it to the kids. The first way is for an irrevocable trust to be created immediately upon your death to hold a portion of the assets for the kids that will be completely protected from ex-spouses, future wives, creditors, debtors, and lawsuits. Second way is to require that any future wife sign a prenuptial agreement, and if they refuse to do so, then the irrevocable trust is then created. Guys, you can do the same, but that same study showed that only 20% of women get remarried or into serious relationships. Follow me.