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prenuptial agreement

noun

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

An agreement made before marriage setting out how the couple's assets are to be divided if they later divorce.

Both parties took independent legal advice before signing the prenuptial agreement.

Similar: prenup

Topic: Family law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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