For 25 years, at least some Connecticut judges have relied on McHugh v. McHugh‘s holding that divorce litigants risk the invalidation of their prenuptial agreements unless they both had “index pendent knowledge” of the other’s financial worth – whether or not it was disclosed in writing – at the time of the agreement’s signing.
Turns out that was a typo which somehow managed to elude the folks at WestLaw and Lexis. That is, until an ambitious Appellate Court judge recently did a little digging. The original 1980 Superior Court decision, he found, only called for “independent knowledge.”
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