Women Listen Up

21 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief advisory segment, the speaker addresses a predominantly female audience, warning that if a wife dies first, her widowed husband is statistically likely (61% according to a clinical psychiatry study) to remarry or enter a serious relationship within two years. This raises concerns about the security of any assets intended for their children, as a new spouse could claim those resources. The speaker proposes two legal strategies to ensure the children’s inheritance remains protected: (1) establishing an irrevocable trust immediately upon the wife’s death to hold a portion of the assets, shielding them from future spouses, creditors, debtors, and lawsuits; and (2) requiring any future spouse of the widower to sign a prenuptial agreement, with the irrevocable trust serving as a fallback if the prenup is refused.

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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. The 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.