Manage Your Arizona Domestic Property Rights
Just as Arizona probate law provides a default set of rules for inheriting property in the absence of a Last Will and Testament, Arizona divorce law can be seen as a set of rules for dividing property between divorcing spouses if they have not made other arrangements themselves.
While a Prenuptial Agreement can reflect a couple's own decisions about property division and spousal support if the marriage dissolves, people who live together without marrying have little or no legal protection if one person dies or they decide to go their separate ways.
Contact a lawyer at Lasiter & Jackson for advice about your options for creating and enforcing your own arrangements through a Prenuptial Agreement or a Domestic Partnership Agreement. Our lawyers are able to negotiate, draft, review, enforce or challenge the terms of an agreement you and your spouse or partner are considering or that is already in place.
Neither a Prenuptial Agreement nor a Domestic Partnership Agreement can reduce the obligations of either party to pay child support. Most other decisions that need to be made in a divorce or breakup can be enforced. You can outline each party’s interest in assets, assign debt allocation and define pre-relationship property so that no confusion as to ownership arises. You may also specify alimony rights or the waiver of those rights.
Our law firm is also able to advise clients about Postnuptial Agreements, which are executed after marriage but operate in a similar manner to a Prenuptial Agreement. People interested in forming business partnerships or investing in LLCs often find that a Prenuptial or Postmarital Agreement is useful or even required as a condition of joining the business.
Same-sex partners or people who just prefer living together to marriage stand to benefit significantly from a Domestic Partnership Agreement. Otherwise, without the protection of Arizona family law, domestic partners will need to resort to complex and expensive litigation in civil court if the need to sort out their property interests ever arises.
To learn more about our experience with Prenuptial and Domestic Partnership Agreements, contact an attorney at Lasiter & Jackson in Phoenix.
