A premarital agreement becomes effective upon marriage.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 52B-5
Effect of marriage
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 119 N.C. App. 400 - Matter of Estate of Pate (1995)
Most recently applied in 173 N.C. App. 354 - Roberts v. Roberts (September 2005)
1987, c. 473, s. 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.