Family
Jun. 8, 2012
When is a premarital agreement unconscionable?
Take caution when waiving certain rights in premarital agreement, no matter which side you're on.
Mitchell A. Jacobs
Law Office of Mitchell A. Jacobsfamily law (certified)
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California Western Law School
Mitchell A. Jacobs is a certified family law specialist who limits his practice to serving as a private judge and mediating marital dissolution and other family law matters.
In the recent case of In re Marriage of Hill and Dittmer, the Court of Appeal upheld the enforceability of a premarital agreement on various grounds, holding, in part, that the agreement was not unconscionable because husband had stated his wealth in the agreement, had offered wife the opportunity to investigate his finances and had acquired a knowing waiver of further disclosures from wife.
Sandra Hill and Thomas Dittmer are two "enormously successful" individuals. Prior ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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