What comes next? Since Bill Gates and Melinda Gates announced their divorce on Monday, May 3, reports have circulated that the couple did not have a prenuptial agreement.The news seemed odd given that the pair married in 1994, after Bill had already made a fortune as the cofounder of Microsoft, but Us Weekly can confirm that their divorce petition doesn’t list a signed prenup.According to Janet A.
George, a family law attorney with the Washington firm McKinley Irvin, however, that doesn’t necessarily mean that a prenup doesn’t exist — it just means that the estranged couple are handling the split using a different kind of agreement called a separation contract, which their divorce petition confirms they have signed.“Being aware of who they
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