In Re the Marriage of Spiegel

TERNUS, Justice.

This appeal challenges the economic provisions of a dissolution of marriage decree. Unlike the district court, we find the parties’ prenuptial agreement to be enforceable, and hence reverse and remand.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

A.J. Spiegel met Sara Jane Williams in 1978; they began dating the next year. Both parties had been previously married and divorced and both had children from these prior marriages. At the time of trial AJ. was fifty years of age and Sara was forty-seven. Their respective children were adults.

Sara graduated from high school in 1965 and earned a…