Research commissioned by London law firm Seddons, in conjunction with the Marriage Foundation, has found a staggeringly low level of interest in entering into prenuptial agreements amongst couples who are married or who are planning to marry.

At the same time the research highlighted a worrying lack of awareness amongst couples living together of cohabitation agreements.

In a nationwide survey of over 2,000 adults, undertaken in January by Populus, just two percent of the married respondents had entered into a prenup before getting married, with the vast majority (95 percent) never even discussing a prenup as an option.