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Yes, with the short-lived marriages today and the hostility that is becoming commonplace in the divorce courts over material things, prenuptial agreements should be made compulsory prior to the marriage agreement.

We are no longer living in the days where people got married because they were in love and wanted to spend the rest of their days with the love of their life. Today, love has very little to do with marriage.

Why? Because love is the virtue that literally carries two people through circumstances and disasters and hurts and sickness and forgiveness. Couples whose lives are entwined with love don't run off to the divorce court because of menial situations.

But today, for those of us who actually take the step and say the marriage vows, we know in the back of our minds that if it doesn't work out, then it's over and on to the next one. It's sad, but many people do not get married today with the commitment of making the marriage last a lifetime.

However, when the relationship starts out, everything that was theirs individually becomes theirs together because the intention is to hope the marriage will work. But as time passes and one or both come to realize that it's not working, they begin to return to their individual attitudes.

Items purchased as a couple now become the source of a bitter war in court. Why? Because the relationship is being treated like an investment, and the parties want to have gained from their investment in each other.

I have sat inside the heated courtroom as a professional and watched the anger and the hostility fly across the courtroom as two people fought diligently over furniture. Their life together had ended, yet the closure went on and involved so many other people, and the results were often surprising.

All things considered, a prenuptial agreement should become compulsory. If a couple truly marries for love, then it won't make any difference to them because it really doesn't apply to their life. But since so many people don't marry for love, and it's estimated that most of them will divorce within the first few years, it needs to become a compulsory agreement prior to the marriage agreement.

This not only prevents an added hostile or tearful closure to the relationship, but it prevents any children of the relationship from being hurt through the anger and resentment that could develop between the parents.

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