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The young women driving the US prenup boom: ‘I want to protect myself’

Zillennial couples say they want ‘radical transparency’ around their finances, bucking the idea that prenuptial agreements are rooted in division Kai Amos does not know adult life without her fiance, Garret. They are high school sweethearts who met as teens in Idaho and moved across the country to New York together. They got engaged last year and will be married in September. Their days hum with the constant buzz of wedding planning: picking vendors, writing the guest list, dress shopping. And also meeting with lawyers; the happy couple are working on a prenuptial agreement, to protect their respective assets should they ever get divorced. Amos, who is 30, understands the concept has baggage. Her more conservative friends and family back home in Idaho view prenups as something a rich man (and it is always a man) uses to rein in a woman he suspects of gold digging (and it is always a woma

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Zillennial couples say they want ‘radical transparency’ around their finances, bucking the idea that prenuptial agreements are rooted in division Kai Amos does not know adult life without her fiance, Garret. They are high school sweethearts who met as teens in Idaho and moved across the country to New York together. They got engaged last year and will be married in September. Their days hum with the constant buzz of wedding planning: picking vendors, writing the guest list, dress shopping. And also meeting with lawyers; the happy couple are working on a prenuptial agreement, to protect their respective assets should they ever get divorced. Amos, who is 30, understands the concept has baggage. Her more conservative friends and family back home in Idaho view prenups as something a rich man (and it is always a man) uses to rein in a woman he suspects of gold digging (and it is always a woma

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According to The Guardian’s source item, The young women driving the US prenup boom: ‘I want to protect myself’, Zillennial couples say they want ‘radical transparency’ around their finances, bucking the idea that prenuptial agreements are rooted in division Kai Amos does not know adult life without her fiance, Garret. They are high school sweethearts who met as teens in Idaho and moved across the country to New York together. They got engaged last year and will be married in September. Their days hum with the constant buzz of wedding planning: picking vendors, writing the guest list, dress shopping. And also meeting with lawyers; the happy couple are working on a prenuptial agreement, to protect their respective assets should they ever get divorced. Amos, who is 30, understands the concept has baggage. Her more conservative friends and family back home in Idaho view prenups as something a rich man (and it is always a man) uses to rein in a woman he suspects of gold digging (and it is always a woma

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