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Divorce Planning In Antenuptial Agreements: Toward A New Objectivity, Peter N. Swisher
Divorce Planning In Antenuptial Agreements: Toward A New Objectivity, Peter N. Swisher
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Within the past fifty years, there have been numerous articles written about the validity and enforceability of antenuptial agreements. Such agreements are generally favored by the law when prospective spouses privately contract to vary, limit, or relinquish certain rights which they would otherwise acquire in each other's property or in each other's estate by reason of their impending marriage. Traditionally, this antenuptial agreement is typically made by older people who are about to be remarried, and who have acquired considerable property from a prior marriage that they wish to control.
However, unless the antenuptial agreement provisions fall squarely within this …