Lets begin with a story.ppt

Let’s begin with a story 脑海中的婚姻 The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers The important phrases in the text ● make no mistake about 别弄错了，毫无疑问 ● become/be common in/among 在···方面普通 ● gain in 得到更多的 ● make/hit the headlines 成为头条新闻 ● reduce his exposure to future problems 减少日后的麻烦 ● be passed on/round to 使···传到··· PartⅠ : (1 ～4) A general introduction of prenups;What are prenups and how they are forged? Part Ⅱ: (5 ～8)The 4 paragraphs are about who need to have prenups. The author goes into detail to talk about 4 types of people who need to have prenups before a marriage. partⅢ: (9～ 14). The 6 paragraphs deal with what points should be taken care of when one goes into a premarital agreement. PartⅣ:(15～ 16). They are about the general evaluations of prenups, one negative and the other positive. Premarital Agreements A future husband wanted to be sure that if his marriage didn‘t work out, he could keep his treasured ice-cream collection safely stored away in a freezer. A woman insisted on verifying who would walk the dog. One man wanted the right to get a divorce if his bride-to-be gained more than 15 pounds once she became his wife. These are some of the crazier clauses of prenuptial agreements. But make no mistake about it, what most of them are about is money—and how financial assets will be divided up if a couple divorces. And divorce, with its accompanying money problems, is common in the United States. Prenuptial agreements—or prenups—are designed to address these problems as they arise. Prenups are negotiated by lawyers for the prospective spouses, and signed before a minister binds them in marriage. They have been gaining in acceptance in the United States since the early 1980s, when more states began passing laws that affected the division of financial assets i