Kanye West is set to challenge his prenuptial agreement with Kim Kardashian in an apparent attempt to scuttle her efforts to have herself declared single.
The 44-year-old rapper's lawyers have filed legal documents arguing that all prenuptial agreements signed in California after 2002 are presumed to be invalid, TMZ reported on Tuesday.
Kardashian, 41, will be asking a judge to declare her legally single on Wednesday, March 2, the outlet reported.
Delay tactic: Lawyers for Kanye West, 44, filed documents claiming all prenuptial agreements signed after 2002 — including his agreement with Kim Kardashian, 41 — are invalid, TMZ reported Tuesday; West and Kardashian seen in 2020
'California premarital agreements entered on or after January 1, 2002, are presumptively invalid,' West's lawyers claimed in his filing. 'The presumption of invalidity exists until rebutted at trial or the parties ratify the agreement. We are in the early stages of the case so no ratification has occurred.'
However, West has not previously claimed that his agreement with Kardashian is invalid.
According to the outlet, California's law requires one of the spouses to challenge the prenuptial agreement for it to be presumed invalid, but the Monster rapper has not yet done so.
If he were to do so, he would need to prove that the agreement was 'unconscionable,' meaning that it was too one-sided, or that either party didn't agree to it voluntarily.
Missing pieces: However, West has not previously claimed that his agreement with Kardashian is invalid. The law requires one party to challenge the document, which West hasn't yet done
TMZ notes that West had a lawyer representing him when he signed the prenuptial agreement, suggesting that his signature wasn't involuntary.
The document is also expected to help him retain much of the massive fortune he amassed during his marriage to Kardashian, which comes from several hit albums and his lucrative fashion deals.
West ex previously filed documents claiming that his recent social media posts have been riddled with 'misinformation,' and she claimed their attacks on her and her boyfriend Pete Davidson have caused her 'emotional distress.'
'I believe that the court terminating our marital status will help Kanye to accept that our marital relationship is over and to move forward on a better path which will assist us in peacefully co-parenting our children,' Kardashian wrote in documents filed on February 23, according to Rolling Stone.
Mixed messages: The rapper filed to have Kardashian's complaints about his social media posts ruled inadmissible, claiming she hadn't proved he wrote them,
