Mediating Prenups: A Better Path Forward for Marriage-Positive Prenuptial Agreements

GETTING MARRIED?

Thinking About Having a Prenuptial Agreement? 

Wondering where to begin?

Mediating Prenups details how to begin the process by choosing mediation as the best first step in creating a marriage-friendly prenuptial agreement. In the book, the author describes the potential problems that develop when beginning with the usual attorney-led negotiations, both by initiating a damaging power imbalance as well as engaging in inflexibility that can harm the viability of a marriage. Those standard methods result in creating terms embedded in the resulting the prenup that can diminish marital contentment and resilience. 

Mediating Prenups describes a better process: By working within mediation at the outset, an engaged couple can develop terms collaboratively, which benefit both future spouses (and the relationship itself) over time in their marriage. Finally, the author explains, in detail, the mediation process which she has found to be effective in helping future spouses come to an agreement regarding the financial terms of their marriage-terms that actually support the upcoming marriage when a prenuptial agreement is needed. 

With a clarity and grace that comes from years of experience helping couples through the pain of divorce, and now helping couples create healthy marriages, Laurie Israel shares her insightful, optimistic, and grounded wisdom on building a strong, collaborative marriage. She details how mediation can be used to solve the financial issues inherent in marriage, including in second marriages, marriages with children of wealth, business owner marriages. The book also addresses how to think about and resolve many other financial issues encountered when marrying, whether or not there will be a prenup.

Mediating Prenups is a perfect companion to Laurie Israel's previous two books about prenuptial agreements. In this book she finds just the right balance between being a step-by-step how-to book and a deeper more philosophical dive into the concept of prenups, money and marriage, and a healthy way to think about them. 

Mediating Prenups is a gem of a book. In short, concise chapters, it is a thought-provoking read for marrying clients, their advisors and equally for attorneys and mediators, who care about creating a peaceful and collaborative process for couples working on prenuptial agreements. The book contains loads of tips, both small and large, for negotiating an agreement which focuses on the long-term health of the marriage, not just an agreement to protect the financial assets or income of one or both of the parties. 

Shocking, but true, as Laurie points out, when financial advisors and attorneys fail to discuss prenups with their clients using a marriage-supportive lens, it actually serves to create marital risk rather than mitigate it. The book provides solid advice for building a happy life with a new spouse, digs us out of the era of marriage-weakening prenups, and spiritedly charts a new way forward.

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Mediating Prenups: A Better Path Forward for Marriage-Positive Prenuptial Agreements

GETTING MARRIED?

Thinking About Having a Prenuptial Agreement? 

Wondering where to begin?

Mediating Prenups details how to begin the process by choosing mediation as the best first step in creating a marriage-friendly prenuptial agreement. In the book, the author describes the potential problems that develop when beginning with the usual attorney-led negotiations, both by initiating a damaging power imbalance as well as engaging in inflexibility that can harm the viability of a marriage. Those standard methods result in creating terms embedded in the resulting the prenup that can diminish marital contentment and resilience. 

Mediating Prenups describes a better process: By working within mediation at the outset, an engaged couple can develop terms collaboratively, which benefit both future spouses (and the relationship itself) over time in their marriage. Finally, the author explains, in detail, the mediation process which she has found to be effective in helping future spouses come to an agreement regarding the financial terms of their marriage-terms that actually support the upcoming marriage when a prenuptial agreement is needed. 

With a clarity and grace that comes from years of experience helping couples through the pain of divorce, and now helping couples create healthy marriages, Laurie Israel shares her insightful, optimistic, and grounded wisdom on building a strong, collaborative marriage. She details how mediation can be used to solve the financial issues inherent in marriage, including in second marriages, marriages with children of wealth, business owner marriages. The book also addresses how to think about and resolve many other financial issues encountered when marrying, whether or not there will be a prenup.

Mediating Prenups is a perfect companion to Laurie Israel's previous two books about prenuptial agreements. In this book she finds just the right balance between being a step-by-step how-to book and a deeper more philosophical dive into the concept of prenups, money and marriage, and a healthy way to think about them. 

Mediating Prenups is a gem of a book. In short, concise chapters, it is a thought-provoking read for marrying clients, their advisors and equally for attorneys and mediators, who care about creating a peaceful and collaborative process for couples working on prenuptial agreements. The book contains loads of tips, both small and large, for negotiating an agreement which focuses on the long-term health of the marriage, not just an agreement to protect the financial assets or income of one or both of the parties. 

Shocking, but true, as Laurie points out, when financial advisors and attorneys fail to discuss prenups with their clients using a marriage-supportive lens, it actually serves to create marital risk rather than mitigate it. The book provides solid advice for building a happy life with a new spouse, digs us out of the era of marriage-weakening prenups, and spiritedly charts a new way forward.

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Mediating Prenups: A Better Path Forward for Marriage-Positive Prenuptial Agreements

Mediating Prenups: A Better Path Forward for Marriage-Positive Prenuptial Agreements

by Laurie Israel
Mediating Prenups: A Better Path Forward for Marriage-Positive Prenuptial Agreements

Mediating Prenups: A Better Path Forward for Marriage-Positive Prenuptial Agreements

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GETTING MARRIED?

Thinking About Having a Prenuptial Agreement? 

Wondering where to begin?

Mediating Prenups details how to begin the process by choosing mediation as the best first step in creating a marriage-friendly prenuptial agreement. In the book, the author describes the potential problems that develop when beginning with the usual attorney-led negotiations, both by initiating a damaging power imbalance as well as engaging in inflexibility that can harm the viability of a marriage. Those standard methods result in creating terms embedded in the resulting the prenup that can diminish marital contentment and resilience. 

Mediating Prenups describes a better process: By working within mediation at the outset, an engaged couple can develop terms collaboratively, which benefit both future spouses (and the relationship itself) over time in their marriage. Finally, the author explains, in detail, the mediation process which she has found to be effective in helping future spouses come to an agreement regarding the financial terms of their marriage-terms that actually support the upcoming marriage when a prenuptial agreement is needed. 

With a clarity and grace that comes from years of experience helping couples through the pain of divorce, and now helping couples create healthy marriages, Laurie Israel shares her insightful, optimistic, and grounded wisdom on building a strong, collaborative marriage. She details how mediation can be used to solve the financial issues inherent in marriage, including in second marriages, marriages with children of wealth, business owner marriages. The book also addresses how to think about and resolve many other financial issues encountered when marrying, whether or not there will be a prenup.

Mediating Prenups is a perfect companion to Laurie Israel's previous two books about prenuptial agreements. In this book she finds just the right balance between being a step-by-step how-to book and a deeper more philosophical dive into the concept of prenups, money and marriage, and a healthy way to think about them. 

Mediating Prenups is a gem of a book. In short, concise chapters, it is a thought-provoking read for marrying clients, their advisors and equally for attorneys and mediators, who care about creating a peaceful and collaborative process for couples working on prenuptial agreements. The book contains loads of tips, both small and large, for negotiating an agreement which focuses on the long-term health of the marriage, not just an agreement to protect the financial assets or income of one or both of the parties. 

Shocking, but true, as Laurie points out, when financial advisors and attorneys fail to discuss prenups with their clients using a marriage-supportive lens, it actually serves to create marital risk rather than mitigate it. The book provides solid advice for building a happy life with a new spouse, digs us out of the era of marriage-weakening prenups, and spiritedly charts a new way forward.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780999828755
Publisher: Integrity Registry Press
Publication date: 05/09/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Laurie Israel is a nationally recognized prenuptial agreement attorney, mediator and consultant, who works with couples formulating prenups throughout the country. Mediating Prenups: A Better Path Forward for Marriage-Positive Prenuptial Agreements, is Laurie's third book on prenups. In it, she describes in detail why mediation is often the best first step for creating healthy prenuptial agreements and how it allows an engaged couple to develop terms collaboratively. Laurie's work in the field and her many writings help people navigate the challenges inherent in creating fair and balanced prenups when one is needed, both in process and result. Laurie is the author of two other books on prenuptial agreements: The Marriage-Friendly Prenup (2025) and The Generous Prenups (2018). The Marriage-Friendly Prenup is a concise and updated version of The Generous Prenup. Mediating Prenups is available as an Audible recording, in addition to softcover and Kindle formats. Laurie's writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and she has been interviewed in New York Magazine, and many other publications. She is a frequent presenter on the topic of prenups on webinars and conferences and can frequently be heard sharing her views on prenuptial agreements on podcasts across the podcast sphere.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Traditional Prenup Problem

Chapter 2: The Disconnect Between a Loving Relationship and a Prenup

Chapter 3: The Mediation Alternative

Chapter 4: How Mediators Improve the Process

Chapter 5: The Primary Theoretical Approaches to Mediation

Chapter 6: Why Add the Extra Cost of Mediation to the Costs of Generating a Prenup

Chapter 7: A Cautious Approach to Prenuptial Agreements

Chapter 8: The Problem with Believing the Media about the Need to Have a Prenup

Chapter 9: Addressing Divorce Terms, Inheritance, and the Mediator's Role in Providing Information

Chapter 10: Taking the Next Step: Attorney Representation

Chapter 11: Mediator as Advisor

Chapter 12: A Framework for Mediating Prenuptial Agreements

Chapter 13: Call It "A Financial Plan for Your Marriage"

Chapter 14: The Dangers of "Boilerplate"

Chapter 15: Addressing Divorce Terms in Prenup Mediation

Chapter 16: Selecting and Working with Reviewing/Drafting Attorneys in the Mediation Process

Chapter 17: Moving Beyond Standard Provisions When Addressing Premarital Debt

Chapter 18: Separate Property and Marital (Community) Property

Chapter 19: Separate Property Leads to Separateness

Chapter 20: The Importance of the Marital Home

Chapter 21: Ways to Blend Separate Property into Marital Property During Marriage

Chapter 22: What Does Consideration Have to Do with It

Chapter 23: The Joint (Ad)venture of Marriage

Chapter 24: When a Future Spouse is Engaged in a Business

Chapter 25: Children of Wealthy Families

Chapter 26: The Challenges and Opportunities of Second Marriage Prenups

Chapter 27: Gifting Out Assets During Marriage

Chapter 28: Making Gifts to Children During Second Marriages

Chapter 29: Managing a Client-Centered Process with a Non-Collaborative Opposing Counsel

Chapter 30: Mediating Postnuptial Agreements

Chapter 31: Using Collaborative Practice in Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreement Creation

Chapter 32: Mediating Cohabitation Agreements for Unmarried Partners

Chapter 33: The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Clause in Prenuptial Agreement

Conclusion

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