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| An Appeal Court ruling over a divorced couple's pre-nuptial agreement could pave the way for them to become legally binding in the UK. | |
| Katrin Radmacher, a German heiress, has overturned an earlier decision which awarded her ex-husband £5.6m of her £100m fortune despite their agreement. | Katrin Radmacher, a German heiress, has overturned an earlier decision which awarded her ex-husband £5.6m of her £100m fortune despite their agreement. |
| Under their pre-nuptial agreement, Frenchman Nicolas Granatino said he would not claim a share if they split. | |
| Such contracts are enforceable in France and Germany, but not in the UK. | |
| Miss Radmacher, 39, is one of Germany's richest women and Mr Granatino is a former investment banker. | |
| Their pre-nuptial was signed in Germany before the couple married in London in 1998. | |
| The pair's marriage was said to have broken down after Mr Granatino, 37, gave up a lucrative job in the emerging markets sector in 2003 to become a £30,000-a-year biotechnology researcher at Oxford University. | |
| They divorced in 2006 and a High Court ruling last year awarded her ex-husband £5.6m. | |
| Miss Radmacher appealed against that decision and her lawyer, Richard Todd QC, told a panel of three Court of Appeal judges the freedom to agree a contract was "at the heart of all modern commercial and legal systems". |