Nuptial Agreements
Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?
Since the landmark decision in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 AC 534, English law has recognised the legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements. As family life becomes increasingly international, the courts regularly encounter a wide variety of agreements, including those signed abroad.
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- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
- Foreign Marital Property Regimes
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- Nuptial Agreements
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!30/06/2025 06:00
The Role of Opt-out Agreements in Cohabitation Reform
There is a significant measure of agreement amongst both academics and practitioners that making financial remedies available to cohabiting couples on an opt-in basis will not work.
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- Opt-Out Agreements
- Cohabitation
- Cohabitation Agreements
- Nuptial Agreements
- Autonomy
!30/06/2025 06:00
Financial Remedies – Next Steps on the Road to Reform?
On 18 December 2024 the Law Commission published its Scoping Report on financial remedies on divorce and dissolution. The Scoping Report sets out their findings that the current law does not provide a cohesive framework in which couples going through a divorce can expect fair and sufficiently certain outcomes.
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- Reform
- Maintenance
- Conduct
- Law Commission
- Pensions
- Nuptial Agreements
- Financial Remedies
!18/03/2025 06:00
Domestic Abuse, Nuptial Agreements and Financial Remedies: A Cultural Shift?
As family practitioners will know, the dynamics involved in negotiating nuptial agreements are no less nuanced than those in other parts of our work. There can be power imbalances, cultural clashes and differing perceptions of fairness.
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- Domestic Abuse
- Conduct
- Nuptial Agreements
!18/03/2025 06:00
Pre-Nuptial Agreement Drafting: Is the Profession Earning ‘an Honest Shilling’?
IntroductionIn the same year when the Law Commission published its report Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements and recommended that there be ‘statutory confirmation of the contractual validity of marital agreements’ (1.32), Coleridge J, in his addre…
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!05/12/2022 08:24
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