Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Belonging to the period after marriage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being or happening after marriage: as, a post-nuptial settlement on a wife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being or happening after marriage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Subsequent to marriage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to events after a marriage
Etymologies
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Examples
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You may be able to legally wall yourself off from your spouse's debts, even in community-property states, through a document known as a postnuptial agreement.
MSN Money Finance Tips Liz Pulliam Weston 2010
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David called the postnuptial agreement "hugely generous."
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LOS ANGELES — Settlement talks resumed Thursday in the divorce case of Jamie and Frank McCourt involving ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers after a judge ruled a postnuptial marital agreement they signed was invalid.
McCourt Divorce: Settlement Talks Resume The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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By negotiating a postnuptial agreement, one party will typically be giving up some of those rights and that's why postnups will usually be held to a higher standard of fairness than prenups on the theory that individuals have less bargaining power once married.
Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011
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The court noted, however, that while it was recognizing the intent of the parties in that particular case, in the future it would still have the discretion to waive any pre- or postnuptial agreement, especially if the terms were unfair to the children of the marriage.
Marcy Katz: Can the Prince Protect His Castle? Pondering a Royal Prenup Marcy Katz 2011
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By negotiating a postnuptial agreement, one party will typically be giving up some of those rights and that's why postnups will usually be held to a higher standard of fairness than prenups on the theory that individuals have less bargaining power once married.
Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011
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A postnuptial agreement is a contract between spouses.
Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011
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A postnuptial agreement is a contract between spouses.
Jeffrey A. Landers: How To Divorce-Proof Your Business: The Prenup Jeffrey A. Landers 2011
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The court noted, however, that while it was recognizing the intent of the parties in that particular case, in the future it would still have the discretion to waive any pre- or postnuptial agreement, especially if the terms were unfair to the children of the marriage.
Marcy Katz: Can the Prince Protect His Castle? Pondering a Royal Prenup Marcy Katz 2011
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They believe the postnuptial agreement is invalid because it gives McCourt an unfair and unbalanced amount of assets.
McCourt Divorce Trial Day 3: Frank Returns To The Stand 2010
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