Valid and enforceable: Prenup corroborated testimony under Va.’s ‘Dead Man’s Statute’ (access required)

A circuit court upheld the validity of a premarital agreement after ruling that the document could corroborate an adverse party’s testimony under Virginia’s “Dead Man’s Statute.” After her husband died of COVID-19 while intestate, the plaintiff challenged the validity of a premarital agreement that waived her claim to his $6 million estate. When the decedent’s son testified ...

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Valid and enforceable: Prenup corroborated testimony under Va.’s ‘Dead Man’s Statute’

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