【词汇大师】婚前协议（2/2）

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进入婚姻的殿堂，先来约法三章吧。今天的新词：prenup。
TIPS
本篇中，主持人的话不用听写，只听写嘉宾的话。
主持人的话：① "I'm assuming it's the lawyer who writes the final document ... or is it up to the couple to write it?"
主持人的话：②"Or can you do your own?"

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"Well, what's happened as a result of the recession are the assets that people are protecting are worth less. But they're still being protected. And people are thinking about their assets going into a marriage, thinking about, you know, 'Well, I do want to hold on to what little I do have now in comparison to what I had before the recession.'"
"It's a contract, and so depending on contract law, people are free to contract, typically. But the question is, one of the elements oftentimes is that people have independent counsel or have the ability to have retained independent counsel, so that the  that has been reached can be scrutinized.
"An example of a prenuptial agreement that wouldn't be upheld would be one that would leave somebody out penniless and a public charge. And the court then would say 'We cannot enforce this prenuptial agreement because it's not equitable.'"