Word: pacelli
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...Elizabeth W. Green, photos by Andrew B. Pacelli...
That standard has also been upheld in New Jersey, where Francesca and Antonio Pacelli battled over the validity of their postnuptial agreement. They had been married 10 years in 1985, when, she says, he told her to choose between divorce and signing a postnup. Under the agreement, she was to be awarded $500,000 and half of a $1 million summer home if they divorced. But when Pacelli, a developer, filed for divorce in 1996, his wife argued that she was entitled to more of his fortune, which had increased from $5 million to $11 million, and she sued...
...voluntary is a postnuptial agreement? A person whose betrothed proposes an unfair prenuptial agreement can walk away from the engagement. But the spouse who is asked to sign a postnup has invested financially and emotionally in the union and may have children to think about. Francesca Pacelli says she signed the postnup agreement "because I didn't want my sons to grow up without a father." McCaughey Ross has claimed that her husband forced her to sign the postnuptial agreement in return for a financial contribution to keep her campaign for Governor afloat. "My reaction was utter disbelief," she says...