A New York premarital agreement signed by an heir to the Hermes fortune is valid, even though a subsequent French agreement the couple signed may have failed to include exclusions anticipated by the initial agreement, a Manhattan judge has held.
Mathias Guerrand-Hermes argued that the court should throw out the New York prenuptial on the grounds of “mutual mistake.” Both parties believed the French agreement, which they signed two days later, would include substantial waivers of property rights by the wife. The French waivers, it turns out, may not have been as strong as one or both parties originally believed.
