CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Premarital and Postnuptial Agreements
......Agreements Construed
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Contracts are interpreted as to give effect to the mutual intention of the parties as it existed at the time of contracting.

H has right to reimbursement for his s/p contribution to home purchase where neither premarital agreement, nor quitclaim deed waived his reimbursement right.

Provisions to agreement may be implied only when all conditions met.

Premarital agreement that H's s/p was to remain his s/p did not control property acquired after marriage.

Premarital agreements and agreements to terminate a marriage are construed by very different policy considerations.

Premarital agreements are strictly construed against waiver of marital rights.