{"id":4896,"date":"2026-07-29T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-uk-sees-spike-in-prenups-figures-show\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:00:11","slug":"the-uk-sees-spike-in-prenups-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-uk-sees-spike-in-prenups-figures-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK sees spike in prenups, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-07-29 14:00:09<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The UK is seeing a significant increase in pre-nuptial agreements.<BR><br \/>\nAround one in five married couples in the US &#8211; where divorce rates are particularly high &#8211; has a prenup in place, and the UK is now following suit, according to new data.<BR><br \/>\nDave Howells is preparing to marry Becca Gibson from West Sussex in the next few days, and he doesn&#8217;t have any qualms about having a prenup.<BR><br \/>\nHe told the BBC: &#8220;A court of law could potentially say, hang on, this guy&#8217;s earning a lot more than her, he needs to pay her.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I built a home for myself. I&#8217;ve built a future for myself, including pensions.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Park the emotional side of me loving both her and the kids, I&#8217;m no different now to when I met her, and yet she was independent. Why on earth would I have to pay something towards her life in the event of us splitting up?&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nBecca also feels comfortable with the situation.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;It&#8217;s nice knowing that if anything were to happen, I would just go back to how life was before.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nUK prenups have previously been criticised for limiting women&#8217;s rights. But Becca insists that&#8217;s no longer a real concern for her or her girlfriends, following recent changes to the law.<BR><br \/>\nShe explained: &#8220;You may have some [university] debt, maybe started a business or purchased a home. So you have a lot to protect and to lose by the age of 34.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nLondon lawyer Mark Gilmartin, who works at JMW Solicitors, has seen a marked increase in demand for prenups in recent times.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;It&#8217;s the attempts to protect the fruits of what&#8217;s going to be, rather than what is.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nAccording to the latest research, around one in ten UK couples now has a prenup, following recent legal changes. <BR><br \/>\nHowever, that headline figure could be set to increase in the coming years, with the UK moving further towards a US-like approach.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-07-29 14:00:09 The UK is seeing a significant increase in pre-nuptial agreements. Around one in five married couples in the US &#8211; where divorce rates are particularly high &#8211; has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}