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My pre-marital contract is at least five years old - should we review it?
A pre-marital contract must be reasonable and fair (see question nine) and within the parameters of the award a court would have made even if there had not been a pre-marital contract. Ensure you check with your solicitor every time there is a significant change in your circumstances, such as birth of children of the marriage, which might affect the award a court would make if you divorced. Also check with your solicitor from time to time, to make sure that the law (or its interpretation by the courts) has not changed in such a way that the pre-marital contract stops being reasonable and fair, for example, by giving more rights to one of the divorcing spouses in certain circumstances.
Related Resources
in the Muckle LLP Resource Centre
- I'm getting married soon and I've read about pre-marital contracts. Should I have one?
- We don't own very much. Is there any point in us making a pre-marital contract?
- What should the pre-marital contract cover?
- Isn't it rather unromantic to make provision for the marriage failing? How can I raise it with my partner?
