PRE-paying???
You gotta be kidding!
How about POST-dating the check!?!
With all due respect to hard working, honest shadchanim, how about the many who do NOT give accurate information, who intentionally omit important information, and who even LIE because all they care about is being able to say they made the shidduch, AND, of course, getting the shaddchanus.
How often are things discovered about a chasan or kallah AFTER the chasuna that SHOULD have been told to parents, and that the shadchan DID KNOW, or SHOULD HAVE known.
So, here’s something to think about…
If a marriage quickly dissolves because of the shadchan’s “malpractice”, should the shadchan have any liability for all the emotional (and financial) damage?!?
Now, being realistic, I know that will never happen, but – even injury lawyers do not get payed unless and until they win the case for you.