As part of the UK’s National Marriage Week (11 to 17 May 2020), the head of the family team at law firm Hodge Jones & Allen is urging engaged couples to consider pre-marital or pre-civil partnership agreements, as many people take stock of their assets during this period of lockdown.

While engaged couples cannot get married or register a civil partnership in the UK currently because of the COVID-19 rules, pre-marital or pre-civil partnership agreements have been steadily increasing in England and Wales over the past few years as public awareness grows as to what they can offer, and couples are taking the initiative and plan...