A prenup prepared by a California attorney, for a flat fee of $795

Who prepares your agreement

Your agreement is prepared in the office of attorney Rozsa Gyene, licensed in California since 2000 (26 years of experience), State Bar of California No. 208356, from your answers. She acts for you, and she approves the final version herself before it is delivered.

The office is in Burbank, and the whole matter is handled online, in your own portal, for clients anywhere in California.

This office acts for one party only. The other party is free to retain any California lawyer they choose, and this office will not advise them.

What the $795 flat fee covers

The fee is $795, quoted before any work begins and stated in the fee agreement you sign first. A prenup that limits or waives spousal support is $995.

• An attorney-prepared premarital agreement, written from your answers to the questionnaire in your portal.
• The written disclosure of what each of you owns, owes and earns, prepared and served before signing.
• A draft for you to read before the final version is prepared.
• The final version, delivered to both of you with the written advice to seek independent counsel.
• Signing opens in the portal only after the seven-day period has passed.
• Signing online in your portal, with a record of every step.

This office quotes a flat fee before any work begins, and the written fee agreement states what it covers, when each part is earned, and your right to a refund of anything not earned.

This office prepares a written disclosure of each party’s property and debts and serves it before the agreement is signed. It does that because disclosure is one of the things a court looks at if the agreement is ever challenged as unconscionable, and because an agreement is easier to keep to when neither party is surprised later by what the other owned.

How it works, step by step

Everything happens in your own private portal. There is no office visit and nothing to mail.

• Open a matter and choose the prenup.
• Read and sign the fee agreement, and pay the $795 flat fee online.
• Answer the questionnaire, and list what you own, owe and earn. Your partner is invited to a portal of their own to do the same.
• Each of you receives the other’s disclosure and confirms receiving it.
• You receive the draft and read it.
• The final version is delivered to both of you, and the seven days begin.
• Each of you signs in your own portal once the seven days have passed.

Where each party has agreed to conduct a transaction by electronic means, an electronic record satisfies a law that requires a record to be in writing, and an electronic signature satisfies a law that requires a signature. Civ. Code, § 1633.5, subd. (b); Civ. Code, § 1633.7, subds. (c), (d)

Your partner and their own lawyer

This office acts for you. Your partner is invited to the portal to give their own information and to sign, and is free to have a lawyer of their own review the agreement.

If your partner signs without a lawyer, they must first sign a separate written waiver of counsel, receive a written explanation of the agreement, and sign a declaration, and the portal will not let them sign until that is done.

If the agreement limits or waives spousal support, it is $995, and your partner must have their own lawyer when they sign; the portal will not let them sign that version without one. Having a lawyer does not by itself make a support term enforceable.

A premarital agreement is not treated as signed voluntarily unless the party against whom it is later asserted was represented by their own independent lawyer when they signed, or was advised to seek one and expressly waived that right in a separate signed writing. Fam. Code, § 1615, subd. (c)(1)

A party who signs without their own lawyer must be given a written explanation of the terms and basic effect of the agreement and of the rights and obligations they are giving up by signing it, must be proficient both in the language of that explanation and in the language the agreement is written in, and must sign a declaration saying they received that information and naming who gave it to them. Fam. Code, § 1615, subd. (c)(3)

A term about spousal support is not enforceable against a party who was not represented by their own independent lawyer when the agreement was signed. Fam. Code, § 1612, subd. (c)

A spousal support term that is otherwise unenforceable does not become enforceable just because the party it is asserted against had their own independent lawyer. Fam. Code, § 1612, subd. (c)

Start early enough for the seven days

Allow time for the questionnaire, the disclosure, the draft and the final version, and then the seven days: the day you receive the final version is day zero, seven full calendar days pass, and signing opens the next day.

If your partner’s lawyer has already written an agreement and you want your own lawyer to review it, that is a separate service for $395, described on the prenup review page.

On an agreement signed on or after 1 January 2020, at least seven calendar days must pass between the day a party is first given the final agreement and the day that party signs it, whether or not that party has a lawyer. Fam. Code, § 1615, subd. (c)(2)(B)