Enforcing prenuptial agreements

Crossley v Crossley CA TLR 3 January

The husband was 62 and had an independent fortune of £45m. The wife was 50 with a fortune of £18m. The husband had been married once before and had four children. Wife had been married three times before and had three children. The parties met in June 2005, became engaged in September 2005, married in January 2006 and separated in March 2007. The wife petitioned for divorce in August 2007. Following negotiations between experienced lawyers, the parties had entered into a prenuptial agreement in November 2005, the critical clause of which provided essentially that each party would walk away from the marriage with what he or she had brought into the marriage and that neither party should apply for any order for financial provisions.