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Bilingual prenuptial agreement
Good Afternoon, You will need a separate lawyer for each party or it could be easily defeated. Also there are some Dominican laws that cannot be circumvented by a "contract".
I would consider not getting married at all. If you like her and vice versa just move in together, that is what many Dominicans do.Regarding your assets, keep them overseas or hidden, outside her reach. Avoid telling her about your assets or giving her access to them. That way she can never get to them anyway. Problem solved.
I don't even see the point of getting married. So many couples end up divorced these days that marriage seems pointless. Dominicans from what I read have a high divorce rate to, so I would think twice before getting married. Co-habitating, yes, marriage probably not. I mean what is the purpose of marriage, really? What advantage does it have over just co-habitating?
Marriage to a Dominican seems to be disadvantageous. Doing so means that the wife is entitled to 50 percent of your assets if you divorce. That means if the husband has most of the wealth, and the wife has little to none, she has everything to gain from the marriage and the husband has everything to lose. Would a prenupt circumvent that? Not sure, but if not, then I would not bother with marriage. As I've said before here on DR1, I do not wish to share assets with the woman I'm in a relationship with. I'd rather pass down those assets to my kids.
I agree with the getting married thing, if there is love there it is there with or without marriage. But do inicans having a high divorce rate? Most Dominicans aren't even really married, as soon as you partner up here you are called a wife or husband, they are stupid like that. My ex from 8 years ago still calls me her husband, and we were never married, and only screwed around for 5 months or so. That I know is not uncommon!
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An acquaintance of mine used to debate me about marriage; he felt it was meaningless. I disagreed with him at the time but I'm slowly coming around to his line of thinking. Not only do I consider marriage to be pointless, I consider it to be a financial risk. I've been told here on DR1 that when you marry the wife automatically gets access to 50 percent of whatever you own. Now, why would I want to risk having to share 50 percent of assets I spent years working for by getting married to a woman who may want me purely for those assets? It doesn't make cents. Have you guys seen the huge celebrity divorce settlements in the news? Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan combined lost hundreds of millions! No woman is worth that type of money!
That means a Dominican woman could marry you purely for financial reasons, then divorce you and use Dominican law to seize 50 percent of your assets and then run off with a man she actually "loves." Some Dominican women married to older guys here in the DR got access to their money and businesses when they died. The big question is if these women gave these older men children. Married or not, I'm not giving any woman a dime until she has carried my baby for 9 months, if I get no children she gets nothing from me.
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What is the typical price for a prenupt if you wanted one? How much are we talking?
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you keep talking about cohabiting, as if that solves anything in the DR. you need to get up to speed. there are some serious common law issues here. you live with a woman for a certain period of time, the courts see her as being your wife, and entitled to your stuff. smart guys rent furnished houses, so when the woman buggers off with the furnishings and appliances, they are not his.
Marriage Is An INSTITUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, Who wants To Be "Institutionalized"????????????????
I would not get married until you have lived together for several years, if THEN!!!!
WHY??????
I can see no "Up Side" to a marriage here, but a lot of "Down Sides"!!!
Human Nature being what it is, you, no doubt, WILL marry her.
You think that your relationship is "Different".
She really does love you.
NOT in the DR I Know & Love!!!!!!!
Promise to post when she takes you to the "Lavanderia"!
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"Pre-Nup", or not!
And, Who wants To Be "Institutionalized"????????????????
I would not get married until you have lived together for several years, if THEN!!!!
WHY??????
I can see no "Up Side" to a marriage here, but a lot of "Down Sides"!!!
Human Nature being what it is, you, no doubt, WILL marry her.
You think that your relationship is "Different".
She really does love you.
NOT in the DR I Know & Love!!!!!!!
Promise to post when she takes you to the "Lavanderia"!
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
"Pre-Nup", or not!
Wait, but the court has to prove she is your common law wife gorgon. How would they do that? There has to be some sort of evidence or record. If you're cohabitating there is none. I agree with your comment about renting furnished houses, this is why I keep telling these morons on DR1who say they want to buy a home here that it is a dumb idea. For the price of one home in the DR you could get multiple properties in the USA, and as a citizen you'd have more rights. The USA real estate market will always be better than the Dominican market for reasons that will never change, the USA just has more opportunity. Own property here and then marry a local woman, you could have problems keeping the property in the event of a divorce?
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I agree with this post. I see NOTHING to gain from marrying a Dominican woman. All I see is the opportunity to lose your shirt,especially if you own assets like a business or land or real estate here in the DR. Think about this guys, if you're a foreign man who has busted your ass to be able to afford the assets you own, why would you put yourself in a position where you could lose half of it to some Dominican woman that didn't work for it at all?
The celebrity divorces we hear about in the news should be enough evidence. Tiger Woods, Donald Trump, Jordan, these men lost HUGE sums of money. The founder of BET, I forget his name, Bob Johnson, that dude was a BILLIONAIRE but after he divorced his wife he had to give her half of his BET networth which is $500 million!!!!!! No woman is worth half a billion to me, especially when she is leaving me with it! I agree with Cris that few of these Dominican women love these foreign dudes. All they love is your money. But here is my advice, if you're gonna give a Dominican girl some assets, make her carry your baby for 9 months first! Make her earn that money, make her go through the pain and labor of giving birth to your kid! She will do it for her no good countrymen that treat her like crap, why should you demand anything less?
Scorpion, trust me on this one. i have a buddy who lived with a girl from Nagua. all of 7 months. he is a real dog, and she had just about had it with him. one day, he went to Santiago, and when he returned home, there was not even a lightbulb in the house. i went with him to the fiscal, to be his translator. the fiscal gave her the majority of his stuff, including his custom made king size bed, made by a Moca craftsman, at great expense.
this is the Dominican Republic. when you are here, start your thought process with a clean sheet. nothing works normally here. remember that this is a country in which you could end up in jail if someone hits your parked car and injures themself severely.
