Nguyen, M.D. v. Dist. Ct. (Adams)

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• recognizing special status of marriage gives rise to obligations and antenuptial agreements that cause a spouse to retain no marital interest are invalid
• explaining that Massachusetts requires that agreements be “fair and reasonable” and recognizing that this is not same as test for unconscionability, which requires “greater showing of inappropriateness” (quotations omitted)
• “Marriage is not a mere contract between two parties but a legal status from which certain rights and obligations arise”
• “Marriage is not a mere contract between two parties but a legal status from which certain rights and obligations arise”
• reasonableness of the monetary provision in an antenuptial agreement “cannot ultimately be judged in isolation”
• fair disclosure “is not synonymous with detailed disclosure,” but “contemplates that each spouse should be given information, of a general and approximate nature, concerning the net worth of the other”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).