Bowling Green National Center for family and marriage researchCDC Marriage and Divorce DataDeveney Wells-Gibson’s InstagramJames Brown’s InstagramJames Brown’s TwitterPodcasts: True crime, in-depth interviews and more USA TODAY podcasts right here. Hello, and welcome to 5 Things. I’m James Brown. It’s Sunday, February 12th, 2022. Happy Super Bowl Sunday. I’m picking the Eagles to convincingly beat the Chiefs today, 38-17. Like so many other Americans, my girlfriend and I will be heading out sometime this weekend. We’ll be celebrating Valentine’s Day a bit early, that dreaded made up holiday that so many of us overspend on. We have reservations at a trendy new restaurant that serves mocktails because she doesn’t drink. She’s pumped about it. These plans sent me down a bit of a Google wormhole about love, marriage, and divorce. According to 2021 census data analyzed by Bowling Green University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research, there were about two marriages for every one divorce in America. According to CDC data, there were at least 800,000 divorces per year between the year 2015. That number has dropped in recent years, just under 700 divorces happened in 2021, and boy, divorces can be destructive. My guest today knows that better than most. She’s a lawyer from San Diego known as the Prenup Queen. Today, we discuss how she got that nickname. Prenuptial agreements in divorces with Deveney Wells-Gibson. Deveney Wells-Gibson, welcome to 5 Things. Deveney Wells-Gibson:Thank you. Glad to be here. Glad you’re here. Let’s start from the beginning. How did you become a Prenup Queen? Deveney Wells-Gibson:Man, beginning, beginning, when my parents got divorced, and it affected my mom in a way that it shouldn’t have. And to the point where she was working three jobs to care for me. That’s how it originally began. I’m also a divorce attorney, so I practice family law here in San Diego, California. And just seeing my divorce clients, seeing how it’s affecting them, seeing how it’s affecting their children if children are involved, and just thinking of ways to help mitigate the effects that divorce can have on people. And one of the ways to do that is they’re a prenup. So, prenups obviously don’t mean you don’t get divorced, but should one occur, it helps them talk about how finances should be looked at. Because once you get divorced, there is no love, there is no care. It’s all resentment, it’s all ego, and it’s just emotions. So I originally wanted to be an attorney to help the kids through a divorce, and I just felt like prenups were almost like a backend way of doing that. But me as a family law attorney in and of itself is really how I’m serving my purpose. That’s got to be a tough thing to watch. As an attorney, how have you seen divorces affect people? Deveney Wells-Gibson:In several ways, and I mostly talk about how it hurts people financially, but when you’re going through divorce, emotions. It affects people emotionally.
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