Nuptial agreement
According to the Law Commission definition of marital property agreement, it can be divided into the following three types: First, Pre-nuptial agreement means the agreement made between the spouses between they inter into the marriage; Second, Post-nuptial agreement means the agreement made between the spouses after they enter into the marriage; Last but not least, the separation agreement would be made at the ending of a relationship.
In both pre nuptial and post nuptial agreement, both parties sets out what they need in the content, which in some circumstances, those changes may not be able to foreseen, therefore it involved a prediction of future. For example, people who likely to enter into the agreement are the high net worth couple that want to make clear and protected their wealth. In contrast, separation agreement is focusing in deal with a known reality. Yet we will only be focus on pre-nuptial agreement and post-nuptial agreement in this report, as it is the factor that may affect the court to consider, in order making a decision of the division of assets.
In the traditional approach, pre-nuptial agreement was not recognised by court as it have prediction of the ending of the relationship before it had even started . In later years, Thorpe LJ said that a pre-nuptial agreement would gave very limited significance weight when the court considering the issue of ancillary relief . Currently, the judges have been regard to pre-nuptial agreement as part of the “all the circumstances of the case” when they consider dividing the assets between the parties on divorce issue.
In the recent case of Radmacher v Granatino , the wife is a wealthy German woman and the husband is French who sooner gave up his own...
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... the agreement in order to avoid the obligation toward their children , it maybe unfair if only according to the pre-nuptial agreement to decide the parties assets . Law commission also states that the court will have to access fairness, both parties financial needs, entitlement to compensation, it would be unfair to hold the parties to the agreement instead of making an order in different terms . The “Real need” of the parties also have to take into account besides deciding whether the agreement is fair, Lord Philips identified it as: “Compensation of long-term financial consequences generated by the devotion of one partner to the family at home” When the marriage came to an end and both parties decided to live on their separate ways, if would be unfair to hold their agreement if one partner left in a predicament of real need and another party enjoy a sufficiency.
This case study examines various real estate contracts – the Real Estate Purchase Contract (REPC) and two addendums labeled Addendum No. 1 and Addendum No. 2 – pertaining to the sale of 1234 Cul-de-sac Lane in Orem, Utah. The buyers in this contract are 17 year old Jon D’Man and 21 year old Marsha Mello; the seller is Boren T. Deal. The first contract created was Jon and Marsha’s offer to purchase Boren’s house. This contract was created using the RESC form, which was likely provided by their real estate agent as it is the required form for real estate transactions according to Utah state law. The seller originally listed the house on a Multiple Listing Service (MLS); Jon and Marsha agreed that the asking price was too high for the neighborhood (although we are not given the actual listing price), and agreed to offer two-hundred and seven-thousand dollars ($207,000) and an Earnest Money Deposit of five-thousand dollars ($5,000). Additionally, the buyers requested that the seller pay 3% which includes the title insurance and property taxes. After the REPC form was drafted, the two addendums were created. Addendum No. 1 is from the seller back to the buyer, and Addendum No. 2 is the buyer’s counteroffer to the seller.
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" SECTION 1. The property, both real and personal, which any married woman now owns, as her sole and separate property; that which comes to her by descent, devise, bequest, gift or grant; that which she acquires by her trade, business, labor or services, carried on or performed on her sole or separate account; that which a woman married in this State owns at the time of her marriage, and the rents, issues and proceeds of all such property, shall, notwithstanding her marriage, be and remain her sole and separate property, and may be used, collected and invested by her in her own name, and shall not be subject to the interference or control of her husband, or liable for his debts, except such debts as may have been contracted for the support of herself or her children, by her as his agent. The Married Women 's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c.75) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights of married women, which besides other matters allow...
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A key problem with the current divorce law is that if a couple has simply fallen o...
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