Would you sign this?!

[Istherealawyerinhere]

Would you sign something your PIL wanted after marriage to say that anything your husband inherits you have no claim to should you get divorced (and vice versa).

I just don’t think that’s how my marriage works and I think inheritance becomes OURS (from both sides) and would be ours if the worst should happen. But possibly IABU and people do this often?

What if he cheats? Do they still want to make sure you don't get much?

I think tell your husband to walk away. You really don't want their claws into your relationship like this. It's very undermining.
I'd also distance myself from them - they've shown you what they really think of you.
I'm not anti pre nups, where someone has children from a previous relationship to protect but marriage is about trust and becoming a team. You can't do that when one person is protected from all the risk. I think signing anything will drive a wedge and gives your ILs power in your marriage, which is never a good thing.

It’s just a very asymmetrical document. It means that as a SAHM I give up the next 20 years of my life - my fertile years, my career prospects etc, with no financial guarantees from him whilst he goes from strength to strength financially and won’t be at his “peak” until he’s 45 or whatever. Because life is unfair that way. And in order to make it a fair document I would have to actually sit down and write pages and pages with a lawyer and include my “worth” and the “worth” of each child - and that’s just not something I’m going to do. At least DH is on my side.

How bloody sad for you.

They've indicated their true feelings towards you, and have put money above family.

It's as if they don't like the fact that women have more power these days in a marriage and so they're trying to return the status quo back to the old days where things were more firmly in the man's favour