McHugh v. McHugh

This case concerns the effect of an antenuptial agreement between the parties upon the trial court’s judgment dissolving their marriage and ordering a property settlement. The plaintiff and the defendant met in early 1974 and sometime in April, 1974, decided to live together without being married. On February 20, 1976, the parties married and on April 22, 1976, the plaintiff gave birth to a child. In July, 1978, the parties’ brief and stormy marriage was dissolved.

Prior to their marriage, the plaintiff and the defendant had entered into an antenuptial agreement. In that agreement the parties…