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Defective Acknowledgment Rendered Prenuptial Agreement Invalid

In a full-fledged opinion by Judge Graffeo, the Court of Appeals determined that a defective acknowledgment on a prenuptial agreement was the type of defect that could be cured but that the notary’s affidavit was not sufficient to cure the defect.  Therefore, the prenuptial agreement was invalid.  The opinion includes an extensive discussion of the statutory requirements for acknowledgments and the limited circumstances in which defects can be cured.  With regard to the specific defect at issue, the Court of Appeals wrote:

In the certificate of acknowledgment relating to the husband’s signature, the “to me known and known to me” phrase was inexplicably omitted, leaving only the following statement: “On the 8 [sic] day of July, 1997, before me came Gary Galetta described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same.” Absent the omitted language, the certificate does not indicate either that the notary public knew the husband or had ascertained through some form of proof that he was the person described in the prenuptial agreement. New York courts have long held that an acknowledgment that fails to include a certification to this effect is defective. Thus, we agree with the Appellate Division, which unanimously concluded that the certificate of acknowledgment did not conform with statutory requirements.  Galetta v Galetta, No 94, CtApp, 5-30-13

 

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