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Those of you contemplating marriage may benefit by gifting and or selling assets to a self-settled, or other form of irrevocable trust before your marriage. If you do not own the assets when the wedding occurs, they will be safer than even the best-crafted prenuptial agreement can assure. This is not to suggest that a good prenuptial agreement isn’t appropriate as well. To the contrary, a prenuptial agreement may also be used, and should disclose the existence of the self-settled trust funded prior to the marriage. The prenuptial agreement alone cannot possibly afford the same asset protection that an irrevocable transfer made prior to the marriage, and disclosed to the soon-to-be spouse, will afford.