50 jurisdictions · 843 evidence records
Prenup laws, organized for real questions.
Choose a state to inspect its principal authorities, execution issues, financial-disclosure questions, practical examples, and source-level provenance.
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All state guides
Every page combines a versioned state package with individually written examples and FAQs whose legal claims remain connected to their sources.
Alabama
Alabama's statute-of-frauds, interspousal-contract, and survivor-waiver provisions, together with the Barnhill alternative enforcement framework and qualified appellate decisions on fairness, disclosure, counsel, timing, support, children, and later spousal agreements.
Alaska
Alaska's common-law premarital-agreement framework, exact statutory formalities and domestic-relations boundaries, the separate Community Property Act instrument, probate waivers, and controlling Supreme Court decisions through Kilkenny.
Arizona
Arizona Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, A.R.S. §§ 25-201–205, with section-level records for formation, effectiveness, enforcement, disclosure, support, permitted subjects, amendment, void marriage, and limitations.
Arkansas
Arkansas Premarital Agreement Act, Ark. Code Ann. §§ 9-11-401–413, with enrolled-act text, the 2017 acknowledgment amendment, and appellate interpretations.
California
California Family Code sections 1611–1616: execution, content, support limits, amendment, voluntariness, disclosure, counsel, timing, and void marriages.
Colorado
Colorado Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act, C.R.S. §§ 14-2-301–313, with current sections, enactment history, and qualified appellate interpretations.
Connecticut
Connecticut Premarital Agreement Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 46b-36a–46b-36j, with section-level records for form, content, children, effect, amendment, enforcement-time unconscionability, disclosure, counsel opportunity, public assistance, void marriage, limitations, and pre-1995 agreements.
Delaware
Delaware Premarital Agreement Act, 13 Del. C. §§ 321–328, with section-level records for formalities, content, child support, effectiveness, amendment, enforcement, financial disclosure, void marriage, and limitations.
Florida
Florida Statutes section 61.079: formalities, content, child support, effect, amendment, enforcement, public assistance, and void marriages.
Georgia
Georgia's current antenuptial-agreement statutes, the July 1, 2018 formality transition, the Scherer enforcement test, and qualified appellate decisions addressing disclosure, counsel, timing, spousal support, property, and mandatory child-related limits.
Hawaii
Hawaii Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 572D-1–11, with exact sections, the July 1, 1987 transition rule, and the Hawaii Supreme Court's modern voluntariness and unconscionability framework.
Idaho
Idaho Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, Idaho Code §§ 32-921–929, with the cross-referenced marriage-settlement formalities, 1995 enactment history, and Idaho Supreme Court interpretations.
Illinois
Illinois Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, 750 ILCS 10/3–9: formalities, content, child support, amendment, enforcement, hardship, void marriages, and limitations.
Indiana
Indiana Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, Ind. Code ch. 31-11-3, with exact current sections, the July 1, 1995 applicability line, and qualified published appellate decisions on voluntariness, unconscionability, disclosure, counsel, timing, construction, and equitable time defenses.
Iowa
Iowa Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, Iowa Code chapter 596 (2026), with section-level records for form, content, support limits, effect, revocation, enforcement, disclosure, severability, void marriage, limitations, applicability, amendment history, and the leading Shanks interpretation.
Kansas
Kansas Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, K.S.A. §§ 23-2401–2411, with exact sections, 1988 enactment history, applicability, and the Davis and Nelson interpretations.
Kentucky
Kentucky's statute-of-frauds formality, Chapter 403 property and family-law boundaries, and controlling Gentry, Lawson, and Lane decisions addressing execution, disclosure, maintenance, property, changed circumstances, and child-related limits.
Louisiana
Louisiana Civil Code matrimonial-agreement rules, including authentic-act and acknowledged-private-act formalities, pre-marriage perfection, contractual consent, public-policy and registry limits, mid-marriage court approval, support, children, and current appellate applications.
Maine
Maine Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, 19-A M.R.S. §§ 601–611, with exact sections, history, and the Dow and Hutchinson interpretations.
Maryland
Maryland's common-law antenuptial-agreement framework under Cannon, Hartz, Frey, and Stewart, together with current Family Law provisions on property, alimony, children, and support and the Estates and Trusts survivor-waiver rule.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts common-law two-stage review under Rosenberg and DeMatteo, exact property and child statutes, probate treatment, and historical applicability boundaries.
Michigan
Michigan common-law review under Reed and Benker, exact writing and probate statutes, Allard's judicial-power limits, child-law boundaries, and historical applicability including the unenacted uniform-act bill.
Minnesota
Minnesota's rewritten antenuptial and postnuptial statute effective August 1, 2024, with exact execution, disclosure, counsel, timing, fairness, amendment, child, probate, and historical-law boundaries.
Mississippi
Mississippi common-law premarital-agreement rules under Sanderson, Mabus, and related appellate decisions, the marriage statute of frauds, property and support applications, child-law limits, and recent Tauzin construction guidance.
Missouri
Missouri's marriage-contract and statute-of-frauds provisions, the Miles fairness framework and related appellate applications, separate probate-waiver statutes, and mandatory child-law boundaries.
Montana
Montana Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, Mont. Code Ann. §§ 40-2-601–610, with exact 2025 sections, the October 1, 1987 applicability rule, and qualified Supreme Court decisions on voluntariness, timing, counsel, disclosure, and construction.
Nebraska
Nebraska Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 42-1001–1011, with exact sections, 1994 applicability history, a documented model-act omission, and Nebraska appellate interpretations.
Nevada
Nevada Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, NRS Chapter 123A, with exact sections, 1989 enactment history, Nevada's state-specific enforcement structure, and Nevada Supreme Court interpretations.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire's written antenuptial-contract statute, MacFarlane and Nizhnikov validity framework, Hollett and Yannalfo timing applications, contract proof and construction, and mandatory child, property, support, and historical boundaries.
New Jersey
New Jersey Uniform Premarital and Pre-Civil Union Agreement Act, N.J. Stat. §§ 37:2-31–41, with exact formalities, the November 3, 1988 applicability line, civil-union amendments, the June 27, 2013 enforcement transition, and qualified published appellate decisions.
New Mexico
New Mexico Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, N.M. Stat. §§ 40-3A-1–10, with exact current codified sections, official-publisher routing, the July 1, 1995 applicability line, and qualified published Court of Appeals decisions.
New York
New York Domestic Relations Law sections 236(B)(1), 236(B)(3), and 240: execution and acknowledgment, property, maintenance, and child-related provisions.
North Carolina
North Carolina Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, N.C. Gen. Stat. ch. 52B, with exact sections current through S.L. 2026-7, the July 1, 1987 applicability line, and qualified published Court of Appeals decisions.
North Dakota
North Dakota Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act, N.D.C.C. chapter 14-03.2, with current section-level rules, 2013 enactment and amendment history, and the North Dakota Supreme Court's 2024 Olson application.
Ohio
Ohio's Gross common-law premarital framework, Fletcher and Zimmie applications, the March 23, 2023 postnuptial and amendment statutes, property, support, child, probate, and historical boundaries.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma's written-contract statute, disjunctive Burgess enforcement framework, Griffin disclosure and burden applications, Hendrick postmarital boundary, property, support, child, probate, and historical rules.
Oregon
Oregon Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, ORS 108.700–108.740, with exact sections, January 1, 1988 applicability, the 2013 medical-assistance amendment, and qualified Oregon appellate interpretations.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's codified premarital-agreement test in 23 Pa.C.S. § 3106, the agreement remedies and modification rules in § 3105, the 2004 enactment history, and qualified controlling appellate interpretations.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 15-17-1–11, with exact current sections, the July 1, 1987 applicability checkpoint, and qualified Supreme Court interpretations.
South Carolina
South Carolina section 20-3-630, the Hardee and Holler enforcement framework, Gilley scope authority, probate waivers, mandatory child law, and historical checkpoints.
South Dakota
South Dakota Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, S.D. Codified Laws §§ 25-2-16–25, with exact sections, 1989 enactment history, and the Charlson and Eichstadt interpretations.
Tennessee
Tennessee writing and section 36-3-501 safeguards; Randolph, Boote, Walker, Stokes, and Cary; property, support, child-law, probate, and historical boundaries.
Texas
Texas Family Code Chapter 4, Subchapter A: formalities, permitted subjects, child support, effect, amendment, and enforcement.
Utah
Utah Uniform Premarital Agreement Act, Utah Code §§ 81-3-201–208, effective September 1, 2024, with exact sections, recodification history, and the Keyes and Reese interpretations.
Vermont
Vermont's statute of frauds, Bassler and current Lacroix framework, divorce property and maintenance statutes, child-law limits, probate-waiver safeguards, and historical checkpoints.
Virginia
Virginia Premarital Agreement Act, Va. Code §§ 20-147–20-155, with section-level records for applicability, form, effect, content, support, voluntariness, disclosure, void marriage, limitations, amendment, prior agreements, and marital agreements.
Washington
Washington's Matson and Bernard two-prong framework, community-property and dissolution statutes, child-law limits, death agreements, and historical checkpoints.
West Virginia
West Virginia's Uniform Premarital Agreement Act for agreements signed on or after July 1, 2023, its exact formation and enforcement sections, mandatory subject limits, and separately labelled pre-Act appellate rules.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin's marital-property agreement statute, section 766.58 execution and enforcement rules, divorce-equity review under section 767.61, leading Button-line cases, child-law limits, and death-transfer boundaries.
Wyoming
Wyoming's statute-of-frauds formality, contract-law enforcement and construction rules, current Morrison and Lund decisions, equitable-distribution and child-law boundaries, and the separate statutory survivor-right waiver.
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State comparisons
These comparisons show differences in the available evidence packages. They do not rank states or predict which law would govern a particular couple.
California vs. Texas prenup requirements
California and Texas both use statutory premarital-agreement frameworks, but California's package separately identifies counsel and timing protections while Texas's package centers its enforcement evidence on voluntariness, disclosure, waiver, and knowledge.
CA versus NYCalifornia vs. New York prenup requirements
California's package emphasizes a signed writing plus statutory counsel, timing, and disclosure safeguards; New York's package uses a subscribed-and-acknowledged formality and separate property, maintenance, and child-related provisions.
FL versus TXFlorida vs. Texas prenup requirements
Florida and Texas both catalog writing, content, child-support protection, amendment, and enforcement, while Florida's statute also contains a distinct public-assistance safeguard.
NY versus ILNew York vs. Illinois prenup requirements
New York's package begins with a deed-style acknowledgment formality, while Illinois uses a signed-writing rule and codifies disclosure, hardship, void-marriage, and limitations provisions in its uniform act.
CO versus WAColorado vs. Washington prenup requirements
Colorado's source-catalogued package points to a modern uniform statute with signed-record, counsel, and disclosure safeguards; Washington's package points to an appellate framework separating substantive fairness from procedural review.
AZ versus COArizona vs. Colorado prenup requirements
Arizona uses a premarital-agreement statute centered on writing, permitted subjects, and execution-time enforcement, while Colorado's newer framework separately covers premarital and marital agreements, access to counsel, and state-specific unenforceable terms.
NY versus FLNew York vs. Florida prenup requirements
New York's package begins with subscribed-and-acknowledged execution and issue-specific domestic-relations rules; Florida uses a detailed statutory act with writing, disclosure, support, public-assistance, and void-marriage provisions.
TX versus WATexas vs. Washington prenup requirements
Texas supplies a compact statutory formation and enforcement test, while Washington's leading appellate framework separates substantive fairness from procedural safeguards and requires current case-law review.
MA versus PAMassachusetts vs. Pennsylvania prenup requirements
Massachusetts pairs written-contract authority with a two-stage appellate fairness review, while Pennsylvania codifies voluntary execution, disclosure or knowledge, and a clear-and-convincing challenge burden.
NC versus VANorth Carolina vs. Virginia prenup requirements
North Carolina and Virginia both use enacted premarital-agreement statutes, but their current packages must be read through separate state text, enactment history, and appellate applications rather than treated as interchangeable model rules.
NJ versus CTNew Jersey vs. Connecticut prenup requirements
New Jersey's package includes annexed-asset and counsel-sensitive statutory history, while Connecticut separately catalogues writing, content, enforcement, and agreement-date applicability under its state act.
MN versus WIMinnesota vs. Wisconsin prenup requirements
Minnesota's rewritten 2024 framework uses witnesses, acknowledgment, counsel, disclosure, and timing-related burdens, while Wisconsin uses its marital-property agreement statute together with the Button fairness framework.
OR versus WAOregon vs. Washington prenup requirements
Oregon's package follows an enacted premarital-agreement chapter with uniformity and severability provisions; Washington relies on the Matson and Bernard appellate framework plus mandatory Title 26 boundaries.
HI versus CAHawaii vs. California prenup requirements
Hawaii's enacted framework and controlling Supreme Court analysis require their own applicability and enforcement review, while California separately codifies counsel, timing, disclosure, and support safeguards.
WV versus OHWest Virginia vs. Ohio prenup requirements
West Virginia's 2023 act governs qualifying new premarital agreements and preserves a separate pre-Act history, while Ohio remains rooted in the Gross premarital framework with a distinct 2023 postnuptial transition.
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