A premarital agreement shall be in writing and signed by both parties. Such agreement shall be enforceable without consideration and shall become effective upon marriage.
Va. Code Ann. § 20-149
Formalities of premarital agreement
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 48 Va. App. 113 - Black v. Powers (2006)
Most recently applied in Jordan v. Jordan (July 2010)
1985, c. 434; 1986, c. 201.
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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.
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