{"id":537,"date":"2014-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/events-lindabury.blawgcloud.com\/2014\/11\/the-perils-of-not-using-a-prenup.html"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:31:55","slug":"the-perils-of-not-using-a-prenup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/the-perils-of-not-using-a-prenup.html","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of Not Using a Prenup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/attorneys\/James_McGlew\/\">James McGlew<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The perils of getting married without a prenuptial agreement were made clear this week with the news of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/11\/business\/harold-hamm-oklahoma-oilman-billion-dollar-divorce.html?_r=0\">divorce of billionaire Harold Hamm<\/a>.&nbsp; Mr. Hamm, Chief Executive Officer of Continental Resources, was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to his now ex-wife in one of the largest US divorce judgments ever.&nbsp; The order requires Mr. Hamm to pay his ex-wife one-third of the settlement, about $320 million, by the end of 2014 and the remainder to be paid in monthly installments of at least $7 million.&nbsp; This award will help to make the former Ms. Hamm one of the 100 wealthiest women in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#039;m sure you can tell by now, Mr. and Mrs. Hamm had no prenuptial agreement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/the-perils-of-not-using-a-prenup.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading The Perils of Not Using a Prenup\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: James McGlew The perils of getting married without a prenuptial agreement were made clear this week with the news of the divorce of billionaire Harold Hamm.&nbsp; Mr. Hamm, Chief Executive Officer of Continental Resources, was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to his now ex-wife in one of the largest US divorce judgments ever.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,65,93],"tags":[],"coauthors":[186],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce-family-law-insights","category-insights","category-mcglew"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Perils of Not Using a Prenup &#8212; November 13, 2014 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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