FIRST AMERICAN BANK WEST v. Michalenko

YANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

Violet Michalenko appealed from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict declaring a premarital agreement valid. We affirm.

Violet was the niece of Peter Michalen-ko’s first wife, Bertha. Bertha died in 1972. A few weeks after divorcing her first husband in 1973, Violet married Peter. Violet and Peter signed a premarital agreement, each agreeing to relinquish any rights acquired in the other’s property by marriage. Under the terms of the agreement, Violet was to receive $5,000 and a life estate in certain property upon Peter’s death.

Peter died intestate on December…