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Blige v. Blige

The husband actively hid the fact that he had $150K in cash in his possession when the parties signed their antenuptial agreement.

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Meagan Taylor Blige filed a complaint for divorce against Willie Taylor Blige in 2005. The trial court set aside the parties’ antenuptial agreement based on Mr. Blige’s failure to make a fair and complete disclosure of his assets, income, and liabilities, and the jury returned a verdict awarding Ms. Blige $160,000 representing her equitable interest in the marital home. Mr. Blige filed an application for discretionary review, which this Court granted pursuant to its pilot project in family law cases. We have determined that the trial court did not err in setting aside the antenuptial agreement for non-disclosure and that the jury did not err in awarding Ms. Blige $160,000 as her equitable interest in the marital property. Accordingly, we affirm. 1. The Bliges had a child together in 1994 and married in 2000. They did not live together before the marriage. The day before the wedding, Mr. Blige took his bride-to-be to an office building to meet with an attorney he had hired for her. The attorney handed her a fully drafted antenuptial agreement, read through it with her, and asked her to sign it, which she did. Mr. Blige signed the antenuptial agreement later, and the parties were married the following day as scheduled.

The antenuptial agreement provided that Mr. Blige would retain as his sole and separate property 19.5 acres of land in Bryan County that he had previously purchased “together with any house or structure which may be situated upon said property.” There was no house or structure situated on the property when the parties married, but Mr. Blige had hidden away $150,000 in cash that he planned to use to build a home there after the wedding. Ms. Blige knew Mr. Blige worked as a delivery truck driver and approximately what he made. However, Mr. Blige never told Ms. Blige about the $150,000 in cash, and she had no knowledge of the money from any other source.

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