N v N (Jurisdiction: Pre-Nuptial Agreement): FD 12 Jul 1999

A pre-nuptial agreement to abide by the decisions of the Beth Din Rabbinical Court could not be enforced so as to prevent a civil divorce proceeding through to its termination, but where the agreement required the husband first to obtain a Get, and a delay would not prejudice the child, there remained a discretion in the court to delay contact proceedings until the Get had been applied for. Although they were unenforceable as such, ante-nuptial agreements might have evidential weight in subsequent proceedings for divorce.

Wall J
Times 12-Jul-1999, Gazette 11-Aug-1999, [1999] EWHC Fam 838, [1999] 2 FLR 745, [1999] Fam Law 691, [1999] 2 FCR 583
Bailii
England and Wales
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CitedRadmacher (Formerly Granatino) v Granatino SC 20-Oct-2010
The parties, from Germany and France married and lived at first in England. They had signed a pre-nuptial agreement in Germany which would have been valid in either country of origin. H now appealed against a judgment which bound him to it, . .

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Updated: 01 November 2021; Ref: scu.84148