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Welcome to Hot and Bothered. I'm your host, Melissa Ford.

This is the space where we get real about sexual health, wellness, relationships, and all the life-affirming conversations

that remind us what it means to live fully and authentically.

Nothing's off limits.

Everything is on the table, so let's dive in. On today's episode, we're stripping the romance off of marriage and looking at it for what it is, a legally binding business deal.

And no one understands that better than family law divorce attorney Brandy Reeves.

She's the strategist behind some of the wildest splits, the woman who can dissect

a pre-nup like a crime scene, and the attorney who knows exactly how power, money, and ego

reshape a marriage. We're talking pre-nups, postnups, and the reality that love may be emotional,

but the law is not.

Let's get into the fine print of forever.

I'm just kind of going through my, in my head, all of the stories that I've heard about men just being terrified of, you know, the court system, child support, feeling like it favors the mother over the father.

I think that traditionally, the courts did favor the mother.

Did.

Did.

Things are changing. The landscape is changing. Fathers are more engaged.

They're more involved because I also believe that previously the mother's worked inside the home and father's worked outside the home.

I'm sure that you have seen a lot of really heartbreaking things that have altered your perception on life, love, humanity.

It's tough. It is. And the law will talk a lot about secondary trauma because as lawyers, we are also called counselors. We counsel our clients on the pros, the cons, the risk, and the benefits. And a lot of things that they're going through is really, really tough. My clients are impoverished. They are abused and neglected children simply because a lot of the things circle around their inability to access food, inability to access medical, inability to access education.

Right. And then I have this picture of clients who are high profile, who are wealthy, that are fighting over the pots and the pants.

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