Best of Dear Annie: Prenup agreement comes back to haunt me decades later

When your fiancé presents you with a prenuptial agreement a week before your wedding, what are your options? For “Feeling Betrayed in Texas” the choice was either sign or call off the wedding .

Decades later, she and her husband are now retired. She recently wrote into the Dear Annie column with the following issue.

The core of the conflict stems from a prenuptial agreement the husband presented just one week before the couple’s wedding 25 years ago. The wife, who owned no property at the time compared to her husband’s three, felt she had no choice but to sign without consulting an attorney or risk canceling the wedding.

For decades, the agreement was not a point of contention, but it has now resurfaced in retirement. Her husband is using the prenup as justification to deny her any ow