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Prenups & postnups, in plain English

You’re signing a contract you’ve never read.

Marriage is a legal contract — one your state wrote for you, with default terms most people never see. Preface shows you those defaults, walks you through the choices, and builds a clear draft agreement to take to your own attorneys.

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We plan our estates.

Nobody leaves their assets to chance — we write wills and trusts. A marital agreement is the same care, applied to the marriage itself.

The defaults are outdated.

In most states child support ends at 18 and never covers college. Separate property quietly becomes shared. You can decide better — up front.

Fair beats silent.

The point isn’t to ‘protect’ one person. It’s for both people to see the terms and agree to them on purpose, while things are good.

How Preface works

1

Learn the defaults

See exactly what your state does with your money, home, business, and kids if you sign nothing.

2

Make your choices

A guided, plain-English questionnaire — separate property, income, debt, support, college, sunset clauses.

3

Get a clean draft

Preface assembles a structured, clearly-labeled DRAFT with a full financial-disclosure schedule.

4

Take it to counsel

Each of you reviews the draft with your own attorney — the step that makes it fair and enforceable.

What a marital agreement can do

  • Define what stays separate property and what becomes marital
  • Decide how income, appreciation, and businesses are treated
  • Assign responsibility for debts
  • Set (or waive) spousal support terms in advance
  • State your shared intentions for things like funding college
  • Coordinate with your wills, trusts, and estate plan
  • Add a sunset clause so the agreement expires or is revisited

What it can’t do

  • Pre-decide child custody or child support (courts decide by best interest)
  • Include anything illegal, or terms that incentivize divorce
  • Be signed under duress, fraud, or without financial disclosure
  • Be “unconscionable” — grossly one-sided — and still expect it to hold up
  • Replace independent legal advice for each of you

The draft is the start, not the end.

Preface is document-prep and education — like a well-organized head start you bring to a lawyer. Each party should have their own independent attorney review and finalize the agreement. We’ll help you get there.

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