For example, as the court in Odatalla noted, "the Mahr Agreement continues a custom and tradition that is unique to a certain segment of our current society and is not at war with any public morals." (134) However, where the foreign divorce was obtained through talaq, courts are reticent to enforce an unfavorable mahr agreement as a
prenuptial contract that bars equitable division of property.
He is particularly annoyed since she signed a
prenuptial contract agreeing that any pay-off would be limited to pounds 100,000.
Before they tied the knot, he signed a
prenuptial contract aimed at preventing him from making a claim on the bulk of her staggering pounds 400 million fortune.
? Giving
prenuptial contracts the backing and force of statute.
It's Ai-Ai delas Alas' first time to have a prenuptial pictorial, but she's no stranger to
prenuptial contracts.
The imams are even suggesting they require
prenuptial contracts protecting the woman's rights in the event the marriage ends.
Up to 48 monograms and stamps, a laptop computer, 189,000 US dollars, hundreds of fake Nikah Namas (Islamic
prenuptial contracts), fake national identity cards and other stamps were seized from their possession, it said.
Thankfully, the Law Commission is now considering proposals to make
prenuptial contracts legally binding, putting an end to ever-increasing goldmine divorce settlements, like the British record of pounds 100m signalled for the wife of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
Pre-partnership agreements, like
prenuptial contracts for heterosexuals, will not be legally binding but could be taken into consideration by the courts if a civil partnership breaks down.
There are measures you can take, however, to safeguard your financial future if you are living with your partner, one being to make a so-called ``living together agreement'' The forms - similar to the
prenuptial contracts much loved by Hollywood stars like Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones - are backed by the Government, and can be downloaded from the advicenow.
There are marriages with
prenuptial contracts so coldly detailed even the justice of the peace blanches.
Then there are pathetic
prenuptial contracts between drunken couples: You don't get my fishing pole no matter what happens.
