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Unit 9: Premarital Reading Activities: Signing agreements before marriage has become popular in the United States since the 1980s. Premarital agreements are designed to solve problems like how to divide up financial assets if a couple divorces. Some people are strongly against premarital agreements but others argue that there are several reasons for them: for example, to protect the considerable accumulation of wealth of one of the spouses, to protect children from a previous marriage, to lay bare the responsibilities and save a couple from a terrible marriage, etc. With 50％ of all marria