Thoughtful Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreement Consulting and Mediation

Create a Financial Plan for your marriage and strengthen your relationship.

About

Laurie Israel

Laurie Israel is a skilled and sensitive attorney and mediator, concentrating her practice on prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. She has authored numerous articles and a book on the subject, and offers consulting and mediation services in Massachusetts and nationwide.

Services

Laurie Israel provides thoughtful consulting and mediation services to clients nationwide. Services include prenuptial and postnuptial agreement mediation and consulting.

Prenuptial Agreements

Put together a financial plan to ensure a successful marriage with a prenuptial agreement. Laurie Israel will guide you through the process and provide you with the necessary legal advice to create an agreement that works for you.

Prenuptial Agreement Mediation

Mediating prenups is often the best way to begin the process. Laurie Israel is an experienced mediator and can help you and your spouse work through your questions about the financial terms of your marriage. Discussing these issues can strengthen your relationship and improve your marriage.

Prenuptial and Postnuptial Consulting

Laurie can assist you in understanding the complexity of your assets and interests in trusts in order to help you better plan for your marriage and the future. She also consults with people who are wondering whether they (or their children) should have a prenup. Laurie also consults with other attorneys on prenups to help them formulate solutions that can meet their clients’ needs.

Financial Education and Counseling

Gain a better understanding of your financial issues and attitudes toward money and marriage with Laurie. Laurie works with clients to carefully review applicable financial documents and guide them through the decision-making process when it comes to prenuptial agreements. She also helps clients explore any underlying concerns or guilt that may impact the decision-making process.

Postnuptial Agreements

Sometimes couples find that financial uncertainty is detrimentally affecting their marriage. A postnuptial agreement that settles financial issues may be helpful in letting the marriage go forward successfully. Couples can use postmarital agreement mediation to embark on the discussions needed to create an agreement that meets their specific needs and goals.

Marital Mediation

If you're struggling in your marriage, you don't need to give up hope. Laurie Israel offers marital mediation, a positive and practical approach that can empower you and your spouse to access the tools you need to work through your problems and stay married. With the right help, you can learn the skills needed to maintain a healthy and loving relationship.

Recent Blog Posts

The Gray Prenup: Should Senior Couples Get Prenups?

Congratulations! You have found love again after your peaceful (or not-so-peaceful) divorce from spouse #1. You have decided that you want to live together

Mediator as Truth Sayer

As posted on Huffington Post on October 23, 2014. The most important factor in mediation success and not allowing the mediator’s “truth” derail the process

Should We Really Have a Prenup? — Part II

Brian Page, is doing wonderful work on improving marriages in his website, Modern Husbands. Here’s the second article I wrote for him – “Should We

What about Next Time? — Prenups for Second Marriages

You are about to finalize your divorce, and hopefully have had a positive experience of planning for the next phase of your life. Divorce is

What’s in a Face

“Faces always talk too much. One line and all their plans are revealed.” — Floriano Martins Martins, a Brazilian poet, is not the only commentator who believes

Beware the Gender Pride Prenup!

Excerpt from Chapter 2, “The Generous Prenup: How to Support Your Marriage and Avoid the Pitfalls,” now available on Amazon and online booksellers. Just

Introducing

"The Generous Prenup"

A book by Laurie Israel

For those getting married, prenuptial agreements can be a distressing and disappointing journey that can even cause irreparable damage to the marriage. “The Generous Prenup” offers guidance on how to approach the process with care and sensitivity, providing couples, families, lawyers, and financial advisors with invaluable advice on how to navigate the process.
If you’re considering a prenup, “The Generous Prenup” explains why mediation may be the best way to start the process and how to find a suitable prenuptial agreement attorney. It’s a very readable primer of all the laws affecting marriages and how prenups change those laws.

Get your copy of “The Generous Prenup” today and take the first step towards a more peaceful and informed prenuptial agreement process.