1.premarital agreements
Premarital agreements or prenuptial agreements are binding legal contracts between two people who intend to marry each other. For more information about premarital agreement and its practices in the US, check out the websites at http://www.bankrate.com/brm/prenup.asp, http://family-law.freeadvice.com/pre_marital_agreement/ or http://www.womenof.com/Articles/le031297.asp.![]()
2. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Born on July 28, 1929, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was first lady of the United States during the administration (1961-1963) of her first husband, John F. Kennedy. She had been a newspaper reporter and photographer before their marriage in 1953. As first lady, she was a patron of the arts and an international fashion-trendsetter. Under her supervision the White House was restored and redecorated and declared a national museum. She was riding beside President Kenney when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov 22, 1963. In 1968 she married the Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis. After her second husband’s death, in 1975, she worked as an editor in book publishing. For more information, please refer to http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jk35.html.![]()
3. Aristotle Onassis
Born on January 20, 1906, Aristotle Onassis was a Greek shipping millionaire who accumulated a fortune of more than $500 million. Born of Greek parents in Turkey, he went to Buenos Aires in 1923 and became a telephone operator there. Soon Onassis established a tobacco import business, and by 1930s he bought unused freighters at low prices and by the end of World War II had amassed great wealth in shipping. After the war he increased his shipping fleet by purchasing surplus wartime freighters. He was also one of the pioneers in the construction of oil supertankers. Onassis used his profits to acquire hotels and banks throughout the world, as well as Olympic Airways. Onassis, who was divorced in 1960, had a well-publicized friendship with the soprano Maria Callas. In 1968 he married Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. For more information, please visit the web site http://www.greece.org/poseidon/work/modern-times/onassis.html.![]()
4. the American Academy of Marriage Lawyers
Its official name is the American Academy
Premarital Agreements 背景知识(background info)
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