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Law Demystified Jul 23, 2026
State-by-State: How Prenuptial Agreements Vary Across America (2026 Guide)
Prenuptial agreement laws differ in every state. Here's a plain-language tour of UPAA adoption, property regimes, and the rules that actually shape your prenup in each state.
Planning Jul 23, 2026
The Online Prenup Buyer's Guide (2026)
An online prenup is a premarital agreement built through a guided digital process. Costs, state rules, what to include, and when attorney review matters.
Trends Jul 11, 2026
The Prenup Report (2026): Costs, Couples, and the Shift Toward Modern Agreements
A data-driven roundup of key prenup statistics: how common prenups are in 2026, what they cost, and how marriage and divorce trends are reshaping modern agreements.
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- 01 Prenup Basics What Is a Guided Prenup With Two Independent Attorneys? (2026) A guided prenup with two independent attorneys gives each partner their own lawyer to advise, negotiate, and revise before signing. How it works and the cost. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Sep 3, 2026
- 02 Trends What Does a Prenup Protect? The Modern Asset Inventory Crypto wallets, frozen embryos, pets, student debt and song lyrics: what a modern prenup actually protects, and how your state's default rules treat each one. Sarah Kauffman Sep 2, 2026
- 03 Education Prenuptial Agreements in Michigan: What Couples Need to Know Before the Wedding Michigan enforces prenups under MCL 557.28 and Rinvelt v. Rinvelt, provided the agreement is voluntary, fully disclosed, and not unconscionable. Sarah Kauffman Aug 23, 2026
- 04 Education Prenup in New Jersey: What Equitable Distribution Means and How a Prenup Lets You Decide Instead New Jersey prenups fall under the Uniform Premarital and Pre-Civil Union Agreement Act, which requires a signed agreement and full financial disclosure. Sarah Kauffman Aug 23, 2026
- 05 Education Prenuptial Agreements in Pennsylvania: What Couples Need to Know Before the Wedding Pennsylvania enforces prenups under 23 Pa.C.S. 3106, and courts do not review terms for fairness once consent and disclosure are established. Sarah Kauffman Aug 23, 2026
- 06 Planning Prenups and the FIRE Movement When separate property earns market growth during a marriage, that appreciation may be treated as marital or as separate depending on whether it is active or passive, a distinction courts weigh case by case. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Aug 5, 2026
- 07 Planning Prenups for Teachers and Professors: Pensions, 403(b)s, and Academic Intellectual Property The median annual wage for postsecondary teachers was $83,980 in May 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for a career educator the pension is often the single largest marital asset. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 08 Planning Prenups for First Responders: Pensions, QDROs, and Why a Divorce Decree Isn’t Enough State and municipal pensions for police and firefighters are divided by a court order such as a QDRO or its public-plan equivalent, not by the divorce decree alone, per the U.S. Department of Labor. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 09 Planning Prenups for Venture Capitalists: Carried Interest, GP Stakes, and the Valuation Problem Carried interest that vests across a marriage can be treated as partly marital property, so venture capitalists use a prenup to set the separate-versus-shared rule in advance. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 10 Planning Prenups for Wealth Advisors: Your Book of Business, Deferred Comp, and RIA Equity The median personal financial advisor earned $102,140 in May 2024, but the wealth in a comp package sits in AUM-based pay, deferred comp, and equity, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 11 Planning Prenups for Creative Professionals: Copyright, Licensing Income, and Freelance Earnings Under U.S. copyright law, most works created after 1978 are protected for the author's life plus 70 years, so creative work drafted during a marriage can generate income long after the marriage ends. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 12 Planning Prenups and Tech Equity: Vesting Across the Wedding, 83(b) Elections, and Who Owns the Upside Under IRC Section 83(b), founders and employees have 30 days from grant to elect capital-gains treatment on restricted stock, a deadline the IRS does not extend, which is why equity timing shapes how a prenup should be written. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 13 Planning Prenups for Attorneys: Partnership Equity, Your Capital Account, and Professional Goodwill The median annual wage for lawyers was $151,160 in May 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and much of an attorney's real wealth sits in partnership equity and deferred pay that default divorce law never anticipated. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 14 Planning Prenups for Actors: Residuals, Right of Publicity, and Loan-Out Companies The median hourly wage for actors was $23.33 in May 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, income that arrives in irregular bursts a prenup can plan around. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 27, 2026
- 15 Planning Prenups for Filmmakers: Residuals, Backend Points, and Your Production Company Film residuals and royalties from work created during a marriage are usually treated as marital property, even when checks arrive years after a project wraps, according to family-law practitioners applying state property rules. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 27, 2026
- 16 Planning Prenups for Musicians: Royalties, Masters, Publishing, and the Band LLC Musicians and singers earned a median hourly wage of $42.45 in May 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and much of that income arrives in irregular waves that a prenup can help characterize as separate or marital. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 27, 2026
- 17 Planning Prenup for Finance Professionals Bonuses accounted for roughly 42% of securities-industry wages, according to the New York State Comptroller's 2026 estimate, which means a finance professional's total pay is not what a paycheck alone shows. Here's how finance professionals can handle bonuses plus options, carry, and more in their prenup. Sarah Kauffman Jul 28, 2026
- 18 Planning Prenups for Physicians The median 2025 medical school graduate carried about $216,659 in education debt, according to the AAMC, which is one of several reasons a prenup fits a physician's financial timeline. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Jul 28, 2026
- 19 Planning Prenuptial Agreements in Wisconsin: The Only Other Community Property State You Haven't Heard About Wisconsin is one of nine community property states, and its Marital Property Act treats most assets acquired during marriage as jointly owned unless a prenup under Wis. Stat. § 766.58 says otherwise. Sarah Kauffman Jul 26, 2026
- 20 Planning Prenuptial Agreements in Tennessee: Formation Rules, Marital Property, and How to Get Started Under Tennessee Code § 36-3-501, a prenup is binding if a court finds it was entered freely, knowledgeably, in good faith, and without duress. Sarah Kauffman Jul 26, 2026
- 21 Law Demystified Prenup vs. Cohabitation Agreement vs. Domestic Partnership: Which Applies If You're Not Married Yet A prenup only takes effect once a couple marries; unmarried couples who want something enforceable now use a cohabitation agreement instead, since marriage is the line that separates the two documents. Sarah Kauffman Jul 26, 2026
- 22 Planning Financial Advisors Now Recommend Prenups: What It Means When Planning Raises the Topic A Harris Poll conducted for Bloomberg found that 53% of engaged or married Americans under age 45 said they had signed a prenup as of May 2026, and advisors are increasingly raising the topic as routine financial planning. Sarah Kauffman Jul 24, 2026
- 23 Planning Can Business Partners Be Affected When a Co-Owner Marries Without a Prenup? The U.S. Census Bureau counted 5.58 million small employer firms in 2023, and a co-owner's divorce has the potential pull any of them into court over ownership and valuation. Diego Tramontin Jul 23, 2026
- 24 Trends Reality TV and the Prenup Conversation: Why It Still Feels Like a Commitment Test (and How to Reframe It) As of 2026, 53% of U.S. couple under age 45 have signed a prenup, up from 42% a year earlier, according to a Harris Poll reported by Axios. However, the emotion around asking has moved slower than the numbers. Sarah Kauffman Jul 21, 2026
- 25 Education How Lifestyle and Conduct Clauses Actually Hold Up: Weight, Social Media, and Behavior Provisions Lifestyle clauses on weight, social media, or cheating are the hardest prenup terms to enforce. Whether one holds up depends on your state and the drafting. Diego Tramontin Jul 20, 2026
- 26 Planning How a Prenup Handles a Marriage Where One Partner Wants to Stay Home About 26% of mothers and 7% of fathers are stay-at-home parents, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data, and a prenup is how couples can plan for that single-income chapter in advance. Diego Tramontin Jul 20, 2026
- 27 Planning Bespoke prenup for complex assets: two independent attorneys, fully custom (2026) A comprehensive, fully custom prenup with independent counsel for each partner, built for couples with unvested equity, a business, a trust, or several interacting assets. Liz Federowicz, Esq. Sep 3, 2026
- 28 Planning What Is the Best Online Prenup Service? (2026) The best online prenup service is the one that meets your state's enforceability rules. Five criteria to judge any platform, plus 2026 flat-fee prices. Sarah Kauffman Aug 21, 2026
- 29 Law Demystified Can You Put a Confidentiality or Privacy Clause in a Prenup? What NDAs and Carve-Outs Actually Do A prenup can include a confidentiality clause, an NDA-style privacy provision, or an intellectual-property carve-out, but under N.Y. Dom. Rel. Law § 236(B)(3) and comparable state contract rules, a court decides case-by-case whether each holds. Diego Tramontin Jul 14, 2026
- 30 Planning DIY Prenup vs. Attorney-Reviewed vs. Guided Online: What Each Path Costs You in Time and Enforceability Traditional two-attorney prenups run roughly $3,000 to $10,000 per couple or more, while flat-fee guided online platforms start around $649 with notarization, according to the 2025 Clio Legal Trends Report and First's published pricing. Sarah Kauffman Sep 4, 2026