Enforcing lifestyle clauses has been one of the most controversial issues in The US for a long time. Some people claim that American contract law is built on freedom of contract which means these lifestyle clauses must be enforceable as long as these clauses were voluntarily made by the couples and these clauses were consistent with the laws. However, others allege that compelling people to carry out what these prenuptial clauses state could lead these people to lose their freedoms especially when we know that some clauses may preclude them from having a normal life such as asking him or her to stay home all the time. I strongly believe that although American contract law gives people the freedom of contract, only the reasonable lifestyle clauses should be enforceable.
The freedom of contract granted by the American contract law is the argument many people use to support the idea of making prenuptial agreements enforceable even if these prenuptial agreements contain bizarre lifestyle clauses. For instance, asking a party to pay a huge amount of money or losing his or her
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Sensible lifestyle clauses include all lifestyle clauses that do not make couples change some aspects of their own lives beyond their abilities such as losing more than 20 pounds or gaining more than 10 pounds. In addition to these lifestyle clauses, unreasonable lifestyle clauses should be invalidated such as how much sex couples will have during their marriage or how much time they should sleep. It is really complicated to decide the standard which should be used to determine whether a lifestyle clause should be considered as a reasonable clause or not. However, I believe that our common sense would work well as a standard for our