haha, you poor bastard
haha, you poor bastard
Set up an irrevocable family trust fund in which all of your major assets are placed. Do this at least two years before going to finding your bride. Check your state's laws and get legal advice from a competent estate planning lawyer, but generally speaking, those assets cannot be raided by your ex-wife in a divorce, no matter how giant a raging bitch the divorce court judge is.
Keep a large chunk of your money in Bitcoin. Can't be confiscated, can't even be found if you do it right. Purchase outside of exchanges, don't talk about it, keep your keys on your own computer in an encrypted file. And be damn sure you let your attorney have a copy of the file so your kids, or other relatives, can inherit them when you croak. Just don't give the attorney the password, so he can't steal the contents.
If marrying a foreigner, you cannot escape the U.S. government's "you owe her ten years of support" rule. Plan for it, and have her start working the moment that she becomes legally capable of doing so. The sooner she gets her 40 quarters of social security income qualified, the sooner you're off the hook.
If you intend to have children with her (why else would you bother getting married?) then do it immediately, and preferably get her pregnant before even marrying her. DNA testing (there is even prenatal paternity testing now) will prove whether the kid is yours or not, and if not, you can dump her before the wedding.
Inheritances vary from state to state, but in the ones I am familiar with, an inheritance is not part of the marital estate, so theoretically it won't be divided upon divorce. However, divorce court judges will use any excuse to claim you "commingled" the assets, so be very careful about that, and preferably move them into a trust fund so that they cannot be raided.
In my state, prenups usually will get thrown out for foreign brides, because judges view them as being coercive ("poor little foreign girl who barely speaks English got forced to sign this so she could move to the U.S. or else she'd be left to rot in her shithole, how dare he!"). Talk to an attorney licensed in the state in which you marry to find out if this is the case where you live. If you are marrying outside the U.S., you may be able to get a prenup where you marry, and you may or may not be able to get that enforced during a divorce.
1. Set up an irrevocable family trust fund in which all of your major assets are placed. Do this at least two years before going to finding your bride. Check your state's laws and get legal advice from a competent estate planning lawyer, but generally speaking, those assets cannot be raided by your ex-wife in a divorce, no matter how giant a raging bitch the divorce court judge is.
2. Keep a large chunk of your money in Bitcoin. Can't be confiscated, can't even be found if you do it right. Purchase outside of exchanges, don't talk about it, keep your keys on your own computer in an encrypted file. And be damn sure you let your attorney have a copy of the file so your kids, or other relatives, can inherit them when you croak. Just don't give the attorney the password, so he can't steal the contents.
3. If marrying a foreigner, you cannot escape the U.S. government's "you owe her ten years of support" rule. Plan for it, and have her start working the moment that she becomes legally capable of doing so. The sooner she gets her 40 quarters of social security income qualified, the sooner you're off the hook.
4. If you intend to have children with her (why else would you bother getting married?) then do it immediately, and preferably get her pregnant before even marrying her. DNA testing (there is even prenatal paternity testing now) will prove whether the kid is yours or not, and if not, you can dump her before the wedding.
5. Inheritances vary from state to state, but in the ones I am familiar with, an inheritance is not part of the marital estate, so theoretically it won't be divided upon divorce. However, divorce court judges will use any excuse to claim you "commingled" the assets, so be very careful about that, and preferably move them into a trust fund so that they cannot be raided.
6. In my state, prenups usually will get thrown out for foreign brides, because judges view them as being coercive ("poor little foreign girl who barely speaks English got forced to sign this so she could move to the U.S. or else she'd be left to rot in her shithole, how dare he!"). Talk to an attorney licensed in the state in which you marry to find out if this is the case where you live. If you are marrying outside the U.S., you may be able to get a prenup where you marry, and you may or may not be able to get that enforced during a divorce.
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