Prenups & Postnups
Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements can help couples protect assets, define expectations, and make important financial decisions with greater clarity.
What Prenups & Postnups Can Address
A well-drafted agreement can clarify financial rights and responsibilities, protect important assets, and help couples make deliberate decisions about their future.
What Prenups & Postnups Can Address
A well-drafted agreement can clarify financial rights and responsibilities, protect important assets, and help couples make deliberate decisions about their future.
Separate Property
Identify property each person brings to the marriage and clarify how it will be treated going forward.
Debts & Financial Obligations
Address responsibility for existing debts and financial obligations incurred during the marriage.
Marital Property
Establish expectations about property acquired during the marriage and how ownership will be handled.
Estate Planning Coordination
Coordinate the agreement with wills, trusts, beneficiary planning, and other estate-planning goals.
Business Interests
Address existing or future business interests and help protect closely held or family-owned businesses.
Spousal Support Concerns
Address expectations concerning alimony or other financial support, subject to applicable Florida law.
Real Estate
Clarify rights and responsibilities involving homes, investment property, and other real estate.
Changes During Marriage
Use a postnuptial agreement to address financial arrangements when circumstances or priorities change after marriage.
Planning Ahead Can Protect What Matters
A prenuptial or postnuptial agreement is not simply about planning for the end of a marriage. It can help couples make thoughtful decisions about property, finances, business interests, family obligations, and estate planning while communication is constructive.
For couples entering a marriage with children, businesses, real estate, inherited assets, significant financial differences, or established estate plans, an agreement can be an important part of broader planning.
Margery helps clients understand the issues, identify what matters most, and approach these conversations with practical legal guidance and appropriate care.
When a Prenup or Postnup May Make Sense
Every couple’s circumstances are different. An agreement may be particularly worth considering when either person has financial interests, family responsibilities, or planning goals that would benefit from greater clarity.
Before Marriage
One or both partners own a business
Either partner owns significant property or investments
There are children from a prior relationship
One partner expects an inheritance or family assets
The partners enter the marriage with substantially different assets or debts
During Marriage
Financial circumstances have materially changed
A business has been started or acquired
Significant property has been purchased or inherited
Estate-planning or family circumstances have changed
The couple wants greater clarity about existing financial arrangements
A Valid Agreement Requires More Than Signatures
A prenuptial or postnuptial agreement can affect significant rights involving property, debt, inheritance, business interests, and financial obligations. For that reason, how the agreement is prepared and signed matters.
Under Florida law, enforceability can depend on issues including whether the agreement was entered into voluntarily, whether required financial information was fairly disclosed, and whether the circumstances surrounding the agreement satisfy applicable legal requirements.
Careful planning also matters before the document is signed. Each person should have adequate time to review and understand the agreement, and each should have the opportunity to obtain independent legal advice.
Florida Statutes § 61.079 — Florida Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
What to Expect
Start Early
The best agreements begin with time for thoughtful discussion, financial disclosure, careful drafting, and independent review before anything is signed.
Define What Matters
Identify the assets, obligations, businesses, property, inheritance interests, and financial expectations the agreement should address.
Create Clarity
The goal is an agreement both parties understand, carefully considered for their circumstances and designed to reduce uncertainty later.
Ready to Create Clarity?
A prenuptial or postnuptial agreement is ultimately about clarity. Thoughtful planning now can help protect what matters, establish expectations, and reduce uncertainty later.
Schedule a consultation to discuss your circumstances, questions, and options.
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