Don’t Just Plan The Wedding, Plan Your Future

With all the excitement, happiness and work that a wedding entails, it's not surprising that few of us take the extra steps of planning for the future. For example, how will your finances get unravelled if the relationship breaks down or if one of you dies?

In the past it was less common for there to be mention of pre-nuptial or post-nuptial agreements or the need to make wills when planning a wedding. And not many unmarried couples buying a house before they married considered a co-owners' agreement or made wills. Often this was because a lot of us like to think: 'It's not going to happen to me'.

There has been uncertainty in Jersey law for some time about the effects of prenuptial agreements, or 'pre-nups' as they are commonly called. Recent developments in English case law have established that the existence of these agreements can be a factor that the court will give weight to, if they meet certain criteria, such as being kept up to date with changing