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Millionaire's Wife Gets Prenup Thrown Out
Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-03-13 20:25
Article here. Excerpt:
'In a rare move, a Brooklyn appellate court has decided that a prenuptial agreement between a Long Island woman and her millionaire husband will be thrown out, the New York Post first reported.
"It's virtually unheard of," Dennis D'Antonio, the attorney for Elizabeth Petrakis, told The Huffington Post. "To a large degree, this has upset the heretofore common thinking that prenups were not subject to challenge. ... Now there's precendent for vacating a prenup. It's a big deal."
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D'Antonio explained to HuffPost that his client's husband is currently worth between $20 and $30 million. Peter Petrakis never made good on his promise about the prenup, and his failure to do so was enough to convince the courts that fraud had occurred, said D'Antonio.
"It's fraud where someone lies to you, or tricks you into doing something on the basis of a lie, that you wouldn't have otherwise done," D'Antonio said of the Petrakis prenup. "That was the grounds for challenging it."'
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If what's been reported is true...
... there seems to me to be a case to be made for voiding the agreement. HOWEVER -- when a man gets told he's the father of a child the mother can be pretty darn sure isn't his and he gets no relief in C/S payments after the truth is discovered, then that is state-defended fraud, isn't it? And this decision does set a serious precedent. This is a case in law where a person's word has beaten out the most recent relevant signed legal agreement. As they say, an oral contract (ie, a verbal promise) isn't worth the paper it's written on... unless of course the issue involves a signed contract favoring a male vs. a verbal contract favoring a female in conflict. Then the verbal contract suddenly wins out.
Two wrongs don't make a right, I know. I've just noticed when it comes to giving the benefit of the doubt to husband/father or wife/mother, herself usually gets the deference.
Prenups are useless
Forget about prenups. They're useless. Women are always right in the eyes of the court, the evidence notwithstanding. Don't get married, period, no exceptions.