Brief History of Enforcement of Prenuptial Agreements in Massachusetts
Here’s a post of a paper I presented a few years ago at the Annual Conference of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation. While it’s not completely up-to-date, it’s a good primer on the topic. I. Early History At common law, post-marital contracts between prospective spouses were legally impossible because, under the “doctrine of marital ...
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The Appeals Court reversed a Probate Court judgment upholding a prenuptial agreement, the proponent of which was the husband, a biologist, who drafted it himself. The Appeals Court focused on a variety of factors in its decision to invalidate the agreement. Neither party had counsel. There was no evidence that the wife, also a biologist, ...
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