Why Clients
Choose Us Over Other Options
Experience Specifically In
Prenuptial Agreements
For most attorneys who prepare prenuptial agreements, it’s 5th or 6th on the list of things that they do. The average family law attorney does 50-100 divorces for each prenup they prepare. Your parent’s estate planning attorney mostly does wills and trusts and has never stepped into a courtroom to defend a prenup.
We have the experience that only comes from working directly with hundreds of couples to prepare prenuptial and postnuptial agreements customized to their exact situation: Real estate investor? Expecting inheritance? Own a business? One spouse moving into the other spouse’s home? One spouse immigrating to the US? Professional athlete or entertainer? We’ve seen it all, and know how to suggest solutions crafted specifically for you.
Real Live Attorneys
There are websites now offering computer-generated prenups for discount rates. But should you skimp on the document that is going to define the financial structure of the most important relationship in your life? Read the fine print on those websites, and some disturbing things come to light: They don’t claim to be lawyers. Your conversations with them aren’t protected by attorney-client privilege. And if you want to brainstorm your options, have an attorney translate the legalese into plain English, or want revisions? There’s no one there to help you, and now you’re back to square one trying to find a local attorney to fill in the gaps.
We are a multi-state law firm with licensed attorneys in each state where we practice. Work with a human lawyer who can listen to your concerns, brainstorm solutions, customize the agreement to your relationship, explain the provisions, and make revisions when needed.
Flat Fees
The worst thing about working with most lawyers is not knowing the cost of the service until you receive your bill - and then learning that you’ve been charged one-fifth of an hour for every email. We charge simple flat fees - for most couples, $3500 - that you’ll know before you hire us: no surprises or hidden charges.
Fast Turnaround Times
Because we specialize in just preparing prenups and postnups, you won’t have to wait for us to finish our two-week divorce trial to get around to preparing your agreement. You are our priority and our turnaround times - typically under one week - show it.
Much More
Than Protecting Premarital Assets
Your average prenuptial agreement is probably fine for identifying the premarital assets that you want protected. But when those agreements need to be enforced, many couples are surprised that their divorce case is just as expensive, long, and messy. They ask themselves “Why did I get a prenup if I still have to spend a year and a half in court?” Far too many prenups are written in a way that requires couples to either track every dollar of spending during the marriage or spend a fortune on forensic accountants if the agreement needs to be enforced.
Our focus is on reducing financial tension in your relationship, before, during, and if necessary, after marriage. We write agreements that are simple to interpret and simple to execute - you shouldn’t need to employ a team of accountants and lawyers to know what’s mine, yours, and ours in your relationship. What’s more: we help you structure your financial relationship with your spouse to prevent arguments over finances during your marriage, eliminating the most common disputes that break apart otherwise happy marriages. There’s a reason we call it the premarital agreement that helps you stay married.
How Do We Work?
From the moment you, schedule your consultation, we will send you resources to help educate you on your options, and a short questionnaire so we can learn about your situation before we meet.
During your video consultation, we’ll review the most relevant options for you and brainstorm solutions to fit your marriage.
Once you’ve made your selections, you’ll have a drafted agreement within a week and plenty of opportunity to review it with a lawyer and make any tweaks or revisions you like before signing.
And the entire process is conducted virtually, allowing you to participate from the comfort of your home using your computer, phone, or tablet.
Questions? Look no further.
Frequently Asked Questions
A prenup is a contract with rules defining your financial relationship with your spouse during and, if necessary, after marriage. This is why we say that every married couple has a prenup! You either write your own, or you accept your state’s default rules when you get married.
There isn’t just one type of prenup. Many people assume a prenup means each spouse keeps 100% of their assets and debts, when in reality, prenups range from keeping assets and debts separate, to guaranteeing a 50/50 division of everything owned by either spouse and everything in between.
A postnup is similar to a prenup, except they are signed after the wedding date. In some states, you are limited as to what you can include in a postnup, while in most states, anything you can include in a prenup, you can also include in a postnup.
If you want to customize your financial relationship to have anything other than what your state law says, you need a prenup! At a minimum, a prenup means choosing what belongs to you, what belongs to your spouse, and what belongs jointly to you and your spouse. Without a prenup, a judge’s ultimate power to make those decisions lies.
Specifically, the other reasons to have a prenup are:
Identify premarital assets and debts that will remain separate
Identify categories of assets and debts that will be considered joint property
Pre-determine alimony (or waive alimony)
Protect the inheritance of children
Protect a spouse from the other spouse’s debts
Protect business interests (both premarital and postmarital businesses)
Yes! The myth that prenuptial agreements aren’t enforceable dates back to the 1970s and early 1980s before the passage of the Uniform Prenuptial Agreement Act when the laws surrounding prenups weren’t mature and well settled. Prenups have now been accepted and enforceable in all 50 states for 40 years. Generally, an enforceable prenup is voluntarily signed, negotiated with full disclosure of the financial circumstances of each spouse (assets, debts, income), and with enough time before the wedding that each spouse has the opportunity to hire an attorney and participate in meaningful negotiations. In some jurisdictions, like California, both spouses need to be represented by an attorney, particularly when alimony is addressed. When done properly, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements are routinely upheld like other contracts.
Yes! A prenup can outline not just ownership of assets, but also responsibility for debts, both those that exist at the time of the wedding and those incurred in the future.
Yes! It’s customary to address how assets will be treated in the future, and whether they will be classified as joint property or separate property.
This will depend on each couple, because most of the time associated with getting a prenup should be spent having conversations with your future spouse and getting aligned on how finances will work in your relationship. Most attorneys would recommend anywhere from six weeks to six months, depending on how much you have already discussed with your partner, how much you agree, whether you have complex issues to be addressed, etc. Bottom line: once you’re engaged, start your prenup process – you don’t want to be rushing at the last minute. Some states will be more skeptical of prenups signed within a week of the wedding.
The price can vary depending on the provider, location, whether you’re downloading a computer-generated document or working with a licensed attorney, whether the attorney specializes in preparing prenuptial agreements or not, the complexity of issues, and many other factors. We offer flat-fee customized prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, drafted by experienced licensed attorneys, starting at $3500.
As of 2023, every state except for Iowa allows the use of postnuptial agreements, which are similar to prenuptial agreements, but signed after the marriage. In some states, such as California, you may be limited in what you can include in a postnup as compared to a prenup.
Any attorney can only represent one of the two spouses, so if each spouse wants to receive independent legal advice, they will need to have separate attorneys. That said, we believe that a prenup or postnup is best prepared as a collaborative effort where the couple educates themselves on their options and comes to an agreement on as many of the terms as possible to reduce back and forth between attorneys, where the intent of the couple can sometimes be lost in translation.
In many states, it’s not legally required that both spouses have separate counsel, just that each spouse has had the opportunity to have separate counsel. In some jurisdictions, like California, both spouses need to be represented by an attorney, particularly when alimony is addressed.
Typically the state where you and your spouse are currently residents should be the state for your prenup or postnup (rather than the state where your wedding takes place, or a state where you may move to in the future). If you and your spouse live in different states or plan to move immediately after the wedding, ask us during your consultation about what is best for your situation.
Prenups and postnups are customarily written with clauses specifically intended to make them enforceable across state lines, so you don’t have to worry about rewriting your agreement if you move within the United States in the future.
No! Our entire process from initial consultation to signing your agreement doesn’t require you to physically come to our office – we use Zoom for videoconferencing.
A typical prenup process takes about a month, with much of that time dedicated to the couple having conversations to come to a consensus on the content of their agreement. For couples that have already agreed to most terms, the process can often take just a couple of weeks from beginning to end.