The South Asians Adding Prenups to Their Wedding Checklist
More couples in the diaspora are signing premarital agreements — and rethinking love, duty, and divorce.
When Ramit Sethi met the woman he was going to marry, he planned not only the perfect way to pop the question, but something else: a prenup. “As I started to get ready to propose, I had friends and business contacts say ‘hey, this is something you should think about,’” Sethi told The Juggernaut. Sethi had been an entrepreneur for 15 years and built up considerable assets. But would his future fiancée find the idea of a prenup off-putting? He only had one way to find out.
Many have written tomes on South Asia’s wedding industrial complex, with India’s alone worth about $130 billion. But alongside researching fashion, jewelry, and photographers ahead of the big day, a new trend is emerging, at least among the diaspora: getting prenups. The Juggernaut spoke to couples, therapists, financial advisors, and family lawyers to find out how the community is navigating pre-and-post matrimonial bliss, prenuptial agreement in hand.