Essays

Short pieces drawn from the book, each with one point to make

• Read your marriage contract this weekend
  Ten jobs, easiest first. The first seven are free.
• Go look at the form
  A beneficiary form from years ago can beat your will and your divorce decree. Checking it takes fifteen minutes.
• Your name on the account doesn’t make it yours
  Four questions that catch most people, and the ordinary sentences that turn “mine” into “ours.”
• Three questions before you sign a prenup
  If someone has handed you a draft, read these three things first. If you’re the one proposing it, the order of events matters as much as the terms.
• Get the cheapest divorce that fits
  There are at least seven ways to get divorced. Start at the low end and move up only for a reason.
• Let a chatbot read your contract. Don’t let it write one.
  What a chatbot is good for here, where it goes wrong, and three prompts to start with.

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