>>>Once again, anybody who needs a contract to say that shouldn't be getting married. Does it matter where the property came from?
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>>Sure it does. Consider the case of a pair of 70+-year-olds, widowed from first marriages. Say one of them has a part-ownership in a family business. I can definitely imagine having such a contract to make it clear that the family business remains with the first family and the new spouse doesn't get a share when the owner dies.
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>Ok, it matters. It also sucks as a concept. What kind of person would want to cut out their spouse? Why are they getting married in the first place?

I snipped a lot just to keep this readable.

My key point in all this is that there is a difference between young(-ish) people getting married and establishing a family, and older people who've already been down that path getting married again. Whether they're marrying for love or companionship, a late-in-life marriage isn't about establishing a family in the same way.

Tamar