Prenups and postnups, prepared or reviewed by a California attorney. A flat fee, fixed before you start.

It depends who prepares it and how they charge. A template you complete yourself costs less and comes without a lawyer. An attorney working by the hour cannot tell you the total at the start, because the total depends on how long the work takes.

This office charges a flat fee, quoted before you begin: $795 for a premarital agreement, and $995 where the agreement limits or waives spousal support. The fee agreement states what the fee covers and the stages at which it is earned, and any part not yet earned is refundable.

Not always. This office represents one of you. The other party has two ordinary choices: they can hire their own lawyer, or they can sign a separate writing saying they are going ahead without one. Most people in that position choose one or the other without difficulty, and this office does not advise them which to pick, because it does not act for them.

If the agreement limits or waives spousal support, California law makes that provision unenforceable against a party who was not represented by their own lawyer when they signed. The platform will not let such an agreement be signed by a party without counsel; there is no way to click past it.

Where the other party goes ahead without a lawyer, they receive a written explanation of the agreement clause by clause and sign a declaration recording that they received it.

The fixed part is the review period: on a premarital agreement at least seven calendar days must pass between the day a party is first presented with the final agreement and the day they sign it. Everything before that depends on how quickly both of you complete your disclosure.

A month is comfortable. Less than two weeks is tight, because disclosure has to be exchanged before the agreement is served and the seven days cannot start until it is. The platform asks for your ceremony date at intake and says plainly whether it leaves enough room. It does not shorten the seven days to fit a wedding.

Then there is no agreement. A premarital agreement is a contract between two people and both have to sign it. The platform will not serve a final agreement on a party who has not been given the other side's disclosure, and it records only signatures that were actually made.

If the other party stops taking part, the office will tell you where the matter stands. Section 4 of the fee agreement sets out which stages of the flat fee have been earned by then; the rest is refunded.

Whether a particular agreement is enforced is a question for a court, and nobody can promise you the answer. What can be set out is what the law asks for and what this office does about it.

Family Code section 1615 places the burden on the party seeking to enforce a premarital agreement to prove it was signed voluntarily, and says what that requires: that the party against whom enforcement is sought was represented by independent counsel or waived it in a separate writing; that they had at least seven calendar days between being first presented with the final agreement and signing it; that a party without counsel was given a written explanation of the terms and their effect, in a language they read, and declared they received it; and that nobody signed under duress, fraud or undue influence. Section 1615(a)(2) separately requires fair, reasonable and full disclosure of property and finances before signing.

The platform performs each of those steps in order, refuses to move on until the one before it is done, and records the date and time of each with the documents that were served. That record is what the compliance packet contains. It is evidence of what was done; it is not a prediction of how a court will rule.