Lisa Marie Presley has won a resounding victory in her spousal support battle with estranged ex-husband Michael Lockwood.
A California judge ruled the musician daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley doesn't owe a penny in spousal support to Lockwood because the postnuptial agreement they signed in 2007 is binding.
The decision came after a bench trial in Los Angeles where Lockwood claimed he felt forced to sign the contract and never even read it.
"Respondent testified that he felt compelled to sign the agreement because petitioner was not a 'take no' kind of woman. That does not persuade the court that any undue influence, within the meaning of (applicable law) took place," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman said in her ruling.
"Both parties testified that the petitioner did not threaten to divorce him or take any other action if he did not sign the agreement," the judge said.
The ruling noted that Lockwood was self-supporting when he married Presley in January 2006, earning $245,000 the year they tied the knot and $150,000 the year they both signed the postnuptial agreement.
The judge said Lockwood's claim he signed without reading the pact first was not enough to overturn it because he was represented by a competent lawyer at the time.
The judge added it was "unlikely" that Lockwood, 57, had no understanding of the agreement because he called Presley, 50, from his lawyer's office while it was under negotiation "to tell her there were problems with the document."
"The language involving a waiver of spousal support appears in more than one place, including in very simple language on the second page," the judge said in her ruling.
"The court finds that the postnuptial agreement signed by the parties (on) November 28, 2007 is valid and enforceable in whole," the judge said.
Presley and Lockwood met in 2003 or 2004 when she hired him to work as a musical director on one of her projects.
They married in Japan in 2006 then worked out the postnuptial agreement the year before Presley gave birth to their twin daughters, who are now 9 years old.
Presley filed for divorce in 2016.
Testifying at the bench trial last week, Lockwood said he's a musician who can't "wrap (his) head around" legal language, according to a City News Service story in the Los Angeles Daily News.
"Had I read this, I wouldn't have signed it," Lockwood said while looking at one of the documents during questioning by Presley's attorney, Gary Fishbein. "I think it's unfair."
Presley reportedly claimed in court that Lockwood ran up a massive credit card debt during their relationship, possibly topping $1 million.
She testified she paid spousal support to her first husband, Danny Keough, but not to her subsequent spouses Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
