Legal Opinion
Foster v. Foster
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 26, 1992PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATHEN, Chief Justice.
On plaintiff Joy Foster’s appeal we consider the application of the parties’ premarital agreement to their divorce proceedings. In its divorce order, the Superior Court (Hancock County, Browne, A.R.J.) applied the agreement and awarded plaintiff $50,-000 in lieu of her marital property rights. We conclude that the agreement addresses the disposition of the marital estate only in the event of defendant Charles Foster’s death, and was improperly applied by the Superior Court. We vacate the judgment.
The parties were married in 1977 and have two minor children. Both parties…
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