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3 July 2009 - Press Briefing

German heiress wins UK pre-nuptial ruling in landmark case

Katrin Radmacher, one of Germany's wealthiest women, has won a landmark case to protect her estimated £100m (€117m) fortune from her French ex-husband, setting the stage for pre-nuptial contracts widely used in Europe and the US to be enforced in the English courts, according to a report in the Financial Times.

Nullifying last year's High Court award of a £5.6m lump sum to Nicolas Granatino, Radmacher's former husband, the Court of Appeal said Granatino was subject to a pact the couple signed in Germany in 1998 forfeiting their rights to claim against each other's wealth in the event of the break-up of their marriage.

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