6. Neglected Maintenance
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The Bezos didn’t start off super-rich, as described in Point 2, so they can be forgiven for not thinking of a marital agreement before they married (reportedly six months after meeting when Jeff interviewed – and hired – MacKenzie at D.E. Shaw). But the Bezos fail the maintenance check: when the billions began rolling, they should have been advised by wealth managers to take a moment to set up a marital agreement (a prenup, but after the fact).
What sounds legally sensible is in fact incredibly difficult to broach in real life because it often stokes mistrust, according to say Oliver Arter, who is of counsel at Zurich-based law firm Froriep. «As the saying goes, 'in good times and in bad', but when things are good, its often the case that marital agreements of this sort simply don’t happen.»
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