Category Mediating Prenups

Why Prenups May Be Bad For Your Marital Health

In my law practice, I get a steady stream of potential clients wanting prenuptial agreements. These potential clients read about them in the media and are being told that they are crucial for someone about to be married.

June 1, 2016

10 Secrets of Reviewing Counsel

Being a reviewing lawyer for a party in a mediation requires many skills. Surprisingly, only one of them is a knowledge of the law. This article summarizes my reflections on the skills involved in reviewing mediated agreements, and how there… Continue Reading →

May 15, 2016

Underwood Family Values – A Template for a Marriage

I’m a late adopter. While the Netflix-produced political drama “House of Cards” premiered back in February of 2013, and four seasons (totaling 52 episodes) have already aired, with a fifth season in the works, I only started viewing very recently…. Continue Reading →

April 15, 2016

Tiger Woods – Throw that Prenuptial Agreement Away! How a Prenuptial Agreement can Destroy a Marriage

I’ve been hearing the sorry tale of Tiger Woods’ alleged deficits as a faithful husband to his beautiful Swedish wife, Elin Nordegren. It is just a more publicized and extreme version of what I see in my law practice where… Continue Reading →

April 1, 2016

7 Phrases Every Healthy Couple Should Feel Comfortable Saying

Words matter. Back in the late 1960s, a Canadian philosopher named Marshall McLuan coined an expression, “the medium is the message,” that struck a chord. The phrase went around the world. In a marriage or committed relationship, words are the medium. Words (and… Continue Reading →

March 15, 2016

Laurie Israelis an attorney, consultant, and mediator, concentrating her practice on prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. She works as a consultant and mediator nationwide.

Her writings include articles on divorce, mediation, marital mediation, prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements. You can find her articles on http://www.laurieisrael.com, www.ivkdlaw.com, Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/author/lisrael-911, and Mediate.com https://www.mediate.com/author/Laurie–Israel/836. She is the author of the book The Generous Prenup: How to Support Your Marriage and Avoid the Pitfalls, available on Amazon.

Laurie provides prenup mediation and prenup consulting services in Massachusetts and all over the United States by Zoom.

Laurie formerly practiced as a member of Israel Van Kooy Law, LLC, in Brookline, Massachusetts in the areas of family law practice with estate planning, probate of estates, trust administration, tax, mediation and collaborative law. Laurie is a former board member of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation and the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council. Her writings include articles on divorce, mediation, marital mediation, and prenuptial agreements. You can find her articles on www.ivkdlaw.com, http://www.laurieisrael.com.Huffington Post, and Mediate.com. She is the author of the book The Generous Prenup: How to Support Your Marriage and Avoid the Pitfalls.

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One of the most important choices you will make in the process of getting a prenup is whether you will start the process with mediation in order to help you and your future spouse define the terms of the prenuptial agreement together with the help of a neutral facilitator.