Possible Clues:

• Break up deal as part of union agreement?
• Contract between those about to marry
• Possible hitch to getting hitched
• Plan for divorce
• Wedding contract, for short
• Writer, overcoming resistance, completed contract for union
• Agreement with new university stopping homework
• Agreement before the ceremony to smarten oneself
• Before-vows contract, for short
• There's no gossip in presupposing the family lawyer probably encouraged this