These agreements are referred to a Binding Financial Agreements.

• Pre-nuptial (for parties about to marry)

• Pre-cohabitation Agreement (for parties entering defacto relationship)

• Cohabitation Agreement (for parties already in existing married and defacto relationships)

 These products are for you if you:

• Have accumulated significant wealth you want to protect;

• Have a large fortune, a large inheritance or windfall you want to protect;

• Are “second timers” and have children from previous relationships and you; want to protect assets for them;

• Have a child who is about to enter into a relationship, and you have significant wealth and/or assets they will receive from you by way of future inheritance and you have spoken to them about entering into a financial agreement  with their future spouse prior to commencing their relationship;

• Are bring into the relationship significantly more assets than your partner.

The purpose of pre-nuptial and other financial agreements are to provide you with the comfort of knowing how your assets will be divided if you later separate. They are a risk management tool.

The agreements can also deal with financial arrangements during the relationship.

The law about these agreements is complex. They will only be binding if certain strict requirements are met.

We have drafted and advised on many financial agreements. They are a niche expert product we offer for our exclusive clientele.

Spousal maintenance agreement

This product is for you if you want to protect against a potential spousal maintenance claim by your spouse if you have to separate in the future. Most clients wanting protection agreements seek to protect property and also against future spousal maintenance claims. If that is the case, we will address those issues in the same document.

Binding child support agreement

This product is for you, if you seek certainty regarding future child support arrangement including school fees, health care costs, extracurricular activities.

These agreements are useful and provide comfort when:

• Your children attend private schools and you seek certainty regarding the payment of future expensive school fees;

• You seek certainty about the payment of medical expenses for you children;

• You seek certainty about the payment of extracurricular activities for you children

• You are frustrated by the child support assessment process and would prefer to have more control over where your money is spent rather than having to pay an assessed amount to your former spouse calculated by the Department of Human Resources and having no control how that money is applied to the children (if it is at all). This is particularly frustrating for you if you are meeting other expenses for the children, in particular expensive school fees.