Prenuptial agreements have been around since the colonial days in the Americas. In the seventeenth century, men outnumbered women six to one in the Canadian colonies. King Louis XIV often promised these poor women a more stable economic situation if they immigrated to the colonies of New France and married

Lisa Hochstein, star of “The Real Housewives of Miami,” never saw it coming. She knew her marriage of 13 years had some bumps but didn’t think it would end suddenly. When her husband informed her that he was divorcing her and moving on, she told the press, “It was a