Williams v. Williams

I respectfully dissent. I would affirm the judgment of the court of civil appeals.

On September 5, 1973, Mildred Diseh Lawrence and William Wesley Williams, Sr. executed an antenuptial agreement. Four days later they were married. The ante-nuptial agreement was evidenced by two separately executed documents which the trial court correctly treated as a single contract. One agreement contained these provisions:

Whereas the parties desire that all property now owned or hereafter acquired by each of them shall, for testamentary disposition, be free from any claim of the other that may arise by…