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    "relId": "2013/03/12/pre-nuptial-contracts-no-longer-valid",
    "title": "Pre-Nuptial Contracts No Longer Valid?",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "tags": [
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            "relId": "women",
            "title": "Women",
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    "created": "2013-03-12 22:34:40 UTC",
    "updated": [
        "2013-03-12 22:34:40 UTC"
    ],
    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The beautiful wife of a millionaire Long Island real-estate mogul got a judge to rip up her prenup -- a rare, precedent-setting decision that could influence countless marriages to wealthy people.</p>\n<p>Elizabeth Petrakis, 39 -- sometimes acting as her own lawyer -- got a an appellate panel last month to toss the agreement she signed with Peter Petrakis, 41, four days before their lavish 1998 wedding.</p>\n<p>The prenup stipulated that Peter, who parlayed a string of smoke shops into a $20 million commercial real-estate empire, would keep everything in his name if they split up.</p>\n<p>But Elizabeth argued for seven years that Peter coerced her signature, threatening to call off the wedding even though her father had already paid $40,000 for the reception.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I find this horrifying. If she didn't want to get married under a prenup, she should not have signed it.  It's not coercion to present someone with a contract (although I will allow that waiting until a few days before the wedding was a high-pressure tactic).  Via <a href=\"http://mangans.blogspot.com/2013/03/prenups-no-longer-valid.html\">Mangan's: Prenups no longer valid?</a>.</p>\n"
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