Hill Dickinson’s family team provides specialist advice on the preparation of relationship agreements including:
- Cohabitation agreements
- Pre-marital or pre-nuptial agreements
- Post-marriage or post-nuptial agreements
- Pre-civil partnership agreements
- Separation agreements
Key considerations:
- Marriage, civil partnership and separation agreements are not legally binding on the court in divorce or dissolution proceedings. They are a factor that the court will take into account when resolving financial claims
- The court will give greater weight to agreements entered into at least 21 days prior to the marriage or civil partnership, when both parties have had legal advice and financial disclosure has taken place
- In some jurisdictions pre-marital, post-marital and civil partnership agreements are legally binding
Examples of recent work include:
- Preparing a cohabitation and pre-marital agreements to protect inherited wealth and company shareholdings
- Advising on the relevance of a pre-marital
agreement in subsequent divorce proceedings following a long
marriage
Hill Dickinson LLP provides advice to individuals referred
by the firm’s corporate and commercial, sports and private client
teams.
