Gant v. Gant

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “marriage can be of substantial economic, as well as emotional value to a financially weak party”
• burden of demonstrating invalidity of antenuptial agreement is on the party asserting the agreement’s invalidity
• “The institution of marriage still confers substantial benefits on both the couple involved and society as a whole .... ”
• “Unless a prenuptial agreement is so outrageous as to come within uneonscionability principles as developed in commercial contract law, ... West Virginia courts will not evaluate the substantive fairness of prenuptial agreements!
• general contract law governs antenuptial agreements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).