Hagwood v. Newton

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge TRAXLER and Senior Judge HALL joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge.

A month before they were married, Toni Odom and Charles Newton signed a “Premarital Agreement,” agreeing that the property of each would remain separate after their marriage and explicitly waiving any right to each other’s property. Two year’s after Odom and Newton were married, Odom died. Her estate and her father now seek to enforce the Premarital Agreement against Newton’s spousal rights in Odom’s employee stock plan and savings plan, conferred…