it's too late to draft a valid prenup.

but we have a solution.



Unless you are going to delay your wedding by rescheduling it, the content (e.g., terms that cover alimony, income, and marital debt disposition, to name a few examples) of the Prenuptial Agreement contract must wait: you can schedule a free consultation with us to discuss a Postnuptial Agreement.

Otherwise, the clock is counting down to the sound of wedding bells.

If you are committed to your wedding date, then the show must go on, but your assets and liabilities should remain your own - until you actively, consciously choose to re-title, gift, or bequeath them to your spouse.  The choice should be yours.

Why is it important to protect these premarital assets?

Because you worked hard for them.

Or because you inherited them through your family line and wish to pass them to your children, not to a stranger whom your partner may marry if you two divorce.

We are not only protecting the asset: we are also protecting its growth as your asset alone during the marriage as many assets usually increase in value - and an asset's value may be converted into a different, and often more valuable, asset. To illustrate, imagine the following:

1. You have a stock portfolio right now.  It's a premarital asset because you are not yet married. This of this portfolio as Asset 1.
2. Tomorrow, you marry.
3. This stock portfolio performs well over the next five years. 
4. At year 6 in your marriage, you take the portfolio's value to buy real estate. This real estate is Asset 2, which means Asset 1 has been converted into Asset 2.
5. During years 7 through 12 of your marriage, that real estate purchase triples in value.

Your disclosure and/or Prenuptial or Postnuptial Agreement

assure that both Asset 1  and Asset 2  remain yours in a divorce.

Right now, you don't have time to draft a Prenuptial Agreement, but you can itemize your premarital assets so that they are identified as yours in divorce court - even if they have been converted into a different asset as in the illustration above.

Let's index your list of assets and liabilities, and that index will become your Exhibit if you choose to complete the Agreement later on.