Orlando Prenuptial Agreement Lawyer

The three ways Orlando couples use this practice

Prenup work is not one service. It is three, and which one you need depends on which side of the agreement you are on.

Drafting ($2,450 flat). You want the agreement. We design it in a video strategy session, build financial disclosure schedules like litigation exhibits, draft every clause to section 61.079 rather than adapting a template, handle negotiation with your fiancé’s counsel, and run a witnessed, notarized execution — two witnesses and a notary, the way section 732.702 requires for waivers of spousal death rights.

Independent review ($500 flat). You were handed an agreement and need your own lawyer’s eyes on it. The attorney reads every clause and the disclosure schedules, writes a plain-English analysis of what you would be giving up compared with Florida’s defaults, and walks you through it on a call — within 24 hours. The review service has its own page.

Negotiation ($1,450 flat). The review told you the agreement needs changes. We draft your requested revisions as formal redlines and negotiate them with the drafting attorney until the agreement is one you can sign — then re-review the revised draft before you do.

Why each of you needs your own lawyer

One lawyer cannot represent both parties to a prenuptial agreement. Anyone who offers to “do the prenup for the two of you” is describing a conflict of interest, not a service. We always represent one side.

This is not a technicality — it is the enforceability engine. When a prenup is attacked years later, the argument is almost always voluntariness under section 61.079(7): I didn’t understand it, I had no one advising me, I was rushed. A spouse who had a genuine opportunity for independent counsel of their own choosing — not a lawyer picked and paid for by the other side — has almost no room to make that argument. It is the single hardest fact to argue around.

So we build it in: we make sure your fiancé has a real chance to retain independent review counsel, we can coordinate introductions to qualified Orlando review attorneys, and the record shows both of you signed advised and unhurried.

What Florida law actually requires — § 61.079 in plain terms

Florida adopted the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act as section 61.079 of the Florida Statutes. The rules that decide real cases:

1. A prenup must be in writing and signed by both parties. No oral prenups, no course-of-conduct prenups. § 61.079(3).
2. No consideration is required other than the marriage itself. Neither of you has to be paid anything for the agreement to bind. § 61.079(3).
3. It becomes effective upon marriage. Sign it and call off the wedding, and it never takes effect. § 61.079(5).
4. It fails only on specific defenses. Under § 61.079(7), a party resisting enforcement must prove the agreement was not signed voluntarily; or was the product of fraud, duress, coercion, or overreaching; or was unconscionable when signed and that party got no fair disclosure, never waived disclosure in writing, and had no reasonable knowledge of the other’s finances.
5. Waiving death rights takes more than a signature. Under section 732.702, waivers of elective share, homestead, and the other spousal death rights must be signed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses — which is why our execution is witnessed and notarized, never a kitchen-table signing.

Every step of our six-step process exists to close off one of those failure modes. The deep-dive guides live on the firm site: what a Florida prenup covers, disclosure done right, and how agreements are attacked and defended.

How long before an Orlando wedding should a prenup be signed?

Florida sets no minimum number of days between signing and the wedding — section 61.079 requires only a signed writing. But voluntariness is judged on the calendar, and a late, rushed signing is the classic attack.

Our working rule for Orlando couples: raise it 90 days out, start the process 60 days out, sign at least 30 days before the ceremony. Inside 45 days we still take defensible cases — with rush handling (+$500) and a date-stamped record of every step, because the timeline itself becomes evidence. And if your date makes a defensible agreement impossible, we will tell you so and decline the work rather than draft something built to fail.

Orlando in person — the rest of Florida by video

The practice runs statewide by video, but it is based here: Mack Law P.A., 1607 Woodward St, Suite 12, Orlando, FL 32803 — (407) 749-1034. For Orlando couples that means the execution ceremony is easy to coordinate anywhere in the metro, and an in-person signing or meeting is there if you want one.

It also means the drafting lawyer is from the courtroom where an Orlando prenup would actually be tested. Challenges to a prenup surface in a dissolution case, and for Orlando that means the family divisions of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Orange County. Michael T. Mackhanlall has spent 15+ years in Florida courtrooms litigating family cases — the same fights a prenup is designed to decide in advance. That is the difference between a document service and counsel: the agreement is drafted by the kind of lawyer who gets hired to break one.