Domestic Relations – Premarital Agreement – Real Estate – Parties’ Intent 
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Published: April 26, 2010
Tags: Domestic Relations, Judge Rosemarie Annunziata, Virginia Court of Appeals
Although a couple’s premarital agreement covered wife’s home in Virginia and husband’s condo in Florida, which he purchased before the marriage but titled as a joint tenancy with right of survivorship, the divorce court erred in dividing the property under the agreement because the couple intended the agreement to apply only in case of death, ...
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