Is Marriage a Useful Technology for most people?

I'm sitting in a CLE and the current session is talking about post nups, pre nups, transmutation, maintenance, child support and how these issues impact persons in a certain sector of the economy.

All this can be avoided by not getting married. Am I missing something? BTW, I did family law for 16 years. The attys doing this cle have made dizzying amounts of money obviously.

Broke people don't get impacted by divorce. Neither do very rich people. Anyone stuck in the middle gets stuck.

I suppose don't marry someone who stands to gain more by divorcing you than staying married to you. That's where a prenuptial comes in, but then again, why put yourself this position?

Oh well. They are good presenters and attys, I'm glad litigating marital contracts served them well.