Pre-Nuptial & Post-Nuptial Agreements
Planning for the future can provide greater clarity around your financial arrangements. Sonia provides practical support with pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, helping couples understand their options and put their intentions clearly into writing.
Planning Ahead With Greater Clarity
A pre-nuptial agreement is made before marriage, while a post-nuptial agreement is made after marriage. Both can help couples set out their intentions around financial matters and how assets may be dealt with if the relationship later breaks down.
Sonia takes a practical and individual approach, helping you consider your circumstances, understand the issues that may need to be addressed and work towards an agreement that reflects your intentions.
Protecting What Matters to You
Nuptial agreements can be particularly useful where there are significant assets, existing wealth, family businesses, inherited assets or different financial circumstances between partners. They can provide greater clarity about financial expectations while allowing couples to plan for the future openly and thoughtfully.
It is important that both parties understand the agreement and obtain appropriate independent legal advice before signing.
What Sonia Can Help With
Planning Your Financial Future With Greater Certainty
Pre-Nuptial Agreements
Post-Nuptial Agreements
Assets & Financial Interests
Clear & Considered Agreements
Helping couples consider and document their financial intentions before entering into marriage.
Providing support for couples who wish to clarify their financial arrangements after marriage.
Considering property, savings, investments, business interests and other financial matters that may need to be addressed.
Helping you work through the important issues and create an agreement that clearly reflects your intentions.
FAQ's
A pre-nuptial agreement is an agreement made before marriage setting out how a couple intends their finances and assets to be dealt with if they later separate or divorce.
A post-nuptial agreement is similar but is entered into after a couple is already married. It can be used to clarify financial arrangements during the marriage.
Currently, they are not automatically legally binding. However, courts may give significant weight to a nuptial agreement where it has been entered into freely and with a proper understanding of its implications, subject to fairness.
Yes. Independent legal advice helps each person understand the agreement and its potential consequences. The government has also identified independent legal advice and financial disclosure as important safeguards in its proposed framework for qualifying nuptial agreements.
A nuptial agreement can address many financial matters, but it cannot simply be assumed that every provision will be upheld. The circumstances in which the agreement was made and whether its terms are fair can be important.
