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Family

Sep. 13, 2006

'Burkle' Decision Is a Primer on Postmarital Agreements

Focus Column--Unsatisfied with her postmarital agreement providing her with more than $30 million upon dissolution of her marriage, Janet Burkle, the wife of Ron Burkle, claimed that her post marital agreement was invalid.

Focus Column
By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David Marcus

      Unsatisfied with her postmarital agreement providing her with more than $30 million upon dissolution of her marriage, Janet Burkle, the wife of Ron Burkle, claimed that her post marital agreement was invalid. In an exhaustive analysis of the law regarding postmarital agreements, the court in In re: Marriage of Burkle, 139 Cal.App.4th 712 (2006), enforced the par...

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