Since 2010 the courts of England and Wales have given effect to pre-nuptial agreements that are freely entered into by each party with a full appreciation of their implications, unless they have found that in the circumstances it would not be fair to hold the parties...
In many jurisdictions prenuptial agreements are given contractual status, so that the parties will almost always be held to them. In such circumstances the outcome of the case will obviously usually simply follow the terms of the agreement. But in England and Wales...
Anyone with substantial financial assets is obviously not going to be happy at the prospect of losing a large proportion of those assets in the course of divorce proceedings. Protecting assets from any future divorce is therefore often uppermost in the mind of anyone...
If you or your future spouse are entering the marriage with assets of your own, you may benefit from a prenuptial agreement. These agreements protect such assets from division in the event of a divorce and can provide a couple with financial certainty and stability...
