>That's the situation where I've seen pre-nups used. Emotionally I view it the way Alan does but in a more detached sense it's ordinary prudence when one party has a lot more money than the other. You can bet John and Cindy McCain have one. That doesn't mean they aren't committed to each other.

The matter being totally strange to me, a naive question: is it possible that sometimes the prenuptial agreement is not "if I die, she gets almost nothing", but on the contrary, "if I die, my family gets almost nothing, wife gets most of it"?