Marriage Contract
Of course this is not a secret that Ukrainian and Western cultures are pretty different and things which are common for people in the USA and Europe can be absolutely strange and abnormal for people in Ukraine. And such wide-spread thing as marriage contract also can cause a lot of disputes in Ukraine.
Every year 300 Ukrainian couples sign marriage contracts. In contrast to Europe and Western World where marriage contract became the norm of life, romantic Ukrainian people consider it to be just a blasphemy! You know that money in comparison to incompatibility ruins marriages more often! But why should you expose your family to this danger when you can regulate this issue and make your disputes less sharp? Lebanese Valid Arfush made certain that this is really so! He signed such contracts with Ukrainian women twice.
According to Ukrainian Legislation such marriage contract doesn’t determine private relations but
property. Nevertheless, in other countries where such contracts became the norm of life people can include there everything they wish.
For example Guy Ritchie promised Madonna in the written form that he will work at her spiritual and emotional enrichment and even read Cabbala with her. He had a right to argue with her only using the same phrases which were written in their marriage contract! However, all these didn’t prevent them from divorce. Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards secured their calmness with 4 million dollars in case of unfaithfulness.
Michael Douglas pays to Catherine Zeta-Jones only for the fact that she lives with him – 2 million 8000 thousand per year! Katie Holmes valued her freedom even more expensive – 3 million per year for life in marriage with Tom Cruz and they signed this contract for 11 years! But the most romantic contract signed Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. It has only one paragraph – mutual care about children!
In Ukraine marriage contracts are not popular even among wealthy people. Vlada Litovchetko is married for the third time and every time she tie the knot only with Love. Petro Poroshenko the Head of NBU Council watch only national property and trusts his wife!
You can see that there are a lot of different people who try to choose the best things for themselves and their partners; however, such difficult and disputable for Ukrainian women issue as marriage contract should be solved only in case of complete mutual understanding and care!
