The court, in favor of the Wife, held that a nikah nama with no provision for the wife, disclosure of the husband\u2019s assets, nor independent counsel was not an enforceable prenuptial agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chaudhary v. Ali, No. 0956-94-4; 1994 Va. App. LEXIS 759; 1995 WL 40079 (VA Ct. App. 1995)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The court, in favor of the Wife, held that a nikah nama with no provision for the wife, disclosure of the husband\u2019s assets, nor independent counsel was not an enforceable prenuptial agreement. Husband appealed the trial court\u2019s decision. On appeal, the appellate court affirmed the trial court\u2019s decision on both the nikah nama and the spousal support. The court stated that for the nikah nama to be a valid prenuptial agreement, four requirements must be met at the time of the signing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this case, there was no disclosure of the husband\u2019s assets and the wife did not receive independent advice before signing the nikah nama. Therefore, under Virginia law, this nikah nama was not an enforceable prenuptial agreement. Regarding spousal support, the court looked at the value of the couple\u2019s residence and real estate, as well as a previous mortgage loan application listing the Husband\u2019s income as $13,256\/month. The wife had never worked outside the home. Considering the \u201crelative needs and abilities of the parties,\u201d the court affirmed the trial court\u2019s award of $1,500\/month to the Wife.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The court, in favor of the Wife, held that a nikah nama with no provision for the wife, disclosure of the husband\u2019s assets, nor independent counsel was not an enforceable prenuptial agreement. Chaudhary v. Ali, No. 0956-94-4; 1994 Va. App. LEXIS 759; 1995 WL 40079 (VA Ct. App. 1995) The court, in favor of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies","category-marriage-contracts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Husband and Wife were married in Pakistan. At time of marriage, Husband and Wife signed a \u201cnikah nama\u201d (marriage contract) which barred the wife from receiving anything from the Husband in the event of a divorce. The trial court ruled that the nikah nama was not an enforceable premarital agreement and awarded the Wife spousal support in the amount of $1,500\/month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n