Does Tearing up Your Executed Prenuptial Agreement in Ohio Revoke or Invalidate it?
Recently, a New York court held that a husband could enforce a prenuptial agreement against his wife upon divorce, even though at the time the parties had no intention of ever being bound by the agreement and he ripped up his photocopy of the agreement at the same time his wife ripped up her original. Braha v. Braha, 2014 NY Slip Op 51532.
QUESTION:
The question presented here is, would the case yield the same result if it was adjudicated in Ohio?
DISCUSSION:
In Braha, the parties stated that they entered into a prenuptial agreement only because the husband’s father was insistent they do so. However, on their honeymoon they simultaneously ripped up copies of the agreement and threw them away. The parties were married for twelve years before the marriage began to dissolve. Upon dissolution, the husband produced his original copy of the prenuptial agreement and sought to enforce it. He testified that he had destroyed only a photocopy of his agreement, while his wife had destroyed her original.
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