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California Prenup Guide
A practical California guide to premarital agreements, including the seven-day rule, independent counsel, financial disclosure, separate property, businesses, spousal support, and attorney discovery.
California prenuptial agreements
California has adopted a version of the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, codified at Family Code §§ 1600–1617. A premarital agreement can address many financial rights and obligations, but enforceability depends on both the agreement’s terms and the process used to prepare, review, and sign it.
Starting a California prenup? Begin well before the wedding. California has specific timing, counsel, voluntariness, disclosure, and spousal-support rules that should be considered before the final agreement is signed.
California prenup topics
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What deserves careful attention?
- Voluntary execution and sufficient time for review
- California’s seven-calendar-day safeguard
- Independent legal counsel and any legally permitted waiver
- Meaningful financial disclosure
- Separate property and community-property planning
- Business ownership, appreciation, and compensation
- Real estate, investments, retirement accounts, trusts, and debt
- Spousal-support provisions and their separate enforceability rules
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Complex agreements may require deeper disclosure, valuation work, careful tracing concepts, and coordination with estate-planning, tax, or business counsel. The number of assets matters less than the complexity of the rights being defined.
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