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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...
...Center Party and the defining of any Catholic criticism of Nazi political acts as "foreign interference." The 1933 concordat, claims Cornwell, "imposed a moral duty on Catholics to obey the Nazi rulers" and so neutered Germany's "last democratic focus." (Catholics made up one-third of the German population.) Pacelli, meanwhile, commenced his long silence on Jewish persecution...
...useful summary titled Pius XII and the Second World War. Blet maintains that the 1933 pact was "practically imposed by Hitler." And papal power was hardly its only carrot: "The Nazis offered such good conditions that it would have been crazy not to sign it." Cornwell's implication of Pacelli in the Center Party's demise, he notes, rests heavily on uncorroborated memoirs by a former party head...