Edwardson v. Edwardson

LAMBERT, Justice.

Almost seventy-five years ago this Court declared “the law will not permit parties contemplating marriage to enter into a contract providing for, and looking to, future separation after marriage.” Stratton v. Wilson, 170 Ky. 61, 186 S.W. 522, 523 (1916). In subsequent decisions we have adhered to the foregoing rule, although a fine distinction was drawn in Jackson v. Jackson, Ky., 626 S.W.2d 630 (1981), wherein the Court enforced an antenuptial agreement in a divorce action which required the husband to furnish the wife “a decent support during his natural life.” See also…