Oops! Britney Did It Again
And by again, I mean "split up with someone" -- in this case, husband Kevin Federline. You'll remember that Ms. Spears' union with Mr. Federline came soon after her quick marriage to Jason Alexander (childhood friend, not the pear-shaped "Seinfeld" star) was annulled.
This article on Ms. Spears' divorce plans suggests that her prenuptial agreement played a big role in the timing of the divorce:
She filed [for divorce] two years and one month from the day of her marriage, on Oct. 6, 2004. Her prenup, according to legal theorists, evidently carried increases for Federline for every year of their marriage. And those deadlines, they say, likely had 30-day grace periods.
Hence, Nov. 6 would have been Britney's last chance to get out of paying a third year of alimony settlement to a basically talentless slacker who was a drain on her finances.
I love the term "legal theorists" -- makes it sound like there's a thinktank somewhere with folks pondering the terms of various prenups. However, if I was a member of such a thinktank, I would point out the following (which I previously reported here):
There's also a question of whether Britney Spears' prenup with Kevin "K-Fed" Federline would be invalidated if the two divorced -- the prenup was signed on the day of their wedding (a definite no-no). The prenup appears to have so confused and disoriented Mr. Federline that he wound up wearing a tracksuit with the words "Pimp Daddy" on the back to the actual ceremony.
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