Don't sign at the kitchen table, and don't panic. Leave your name, phone and email — that's all it takes — and a Florida trial lawyer reads the agreement against what the law would actually give you.
$500* flat — your written analysis back within 24 hours of the attorney having the agreement, then a consult call with Michael T. Mackhanlall, Esq.
Want terms changed? Review & revisions — $1,450* flat. Wedding inside 45 days? Rush handling is +$500. *Pricing may change with unusual complexity or novel issues — always quoted in writing before you commit.
Rather talk it through first? Call (407) 749-1034 — or read what independent review covers.
One flat fee, quoted before you commit. Both sides of the line:
Review & Revisions is everything above plus the negotiation. Start here and decide later: the upgrade is quoted in writing first, so you won't be billed into a larger engagement by surprise.
Twenty-four hours is a real promise, and here is exactly what it is measured from: once the attorney has the agreement in hand, your written analysis is back within 24 hours. He writes it himself. The steps in front of that are short, and they are the same for everyone.
Tell us your wedding date on that first call — it sets everything else. Weddings inside 45 days carry a $500 rush fee ($1,000 in total for the review), quoted in writing before any work begins.
The lawyer who drafted this represents your fiancé, exclusively — however warm the emails have been. One lawyer cannot act for both sides of a contract the two of you are negotiating against each other. If that office suggested you "have someone look it over," they meant it literally.
But Florida does not require you to have one. Nothing in Fla. Stat. § 61.079 — Florida's Uniform Premarital Agreement Act — requires either party to be represented. Its only formalities are that the agreement be in writing and signed by both parties, and it is enforceable without any consideration beyond the marriage itself. Two unrepresented people can sign a perfectly valid Florida prenup. Anyone telling you independent counsel is legally mandatory here is wrong. Get one anyway, for two separate reasons.
Today. A review is how you find out what you're agreeing to before you agree to it. Whether a court would enforce this in fifteen years is hypothetical. Whether you want to live under it is not — you're being asked to decide that this month.
Later. The grounds for undoing a Florida prenup are narrow, and the burden sits on whoever attacks it. Under § 61.079(7)(a) that person must prove they did not sign voluntarily; or that the agreement was the product of fraud, duress, coercion, or overreaching; or that it was unconscionable when signed and that beforehand they were denied fair and reasonable disclosure of the other side's property and debts, did not expressly waive disclosure in writing, and could not reasonably have known what the other side had — all three together, not any one alone.
Every one of those is an argument about what you understood and how freely you chose. A record that your own lawyer read the agreement, explained it, and advised you in writing is direct evidence against all of them — which is why experienced drafting attorneys usually want the other side represented. It guarantees nothing; no one can guarantee a court. It removes the easiest attack, and it protects both of you.
Source: Fla. Stat. § 61.079(3) and § 61.079(7)(a) (2026).
Three passes over the document itself, before the side-by-side above is even built.
Some terms don't work no matter what the paper says. A premarital agreement cannot adversely affect a child's right to support — § 61.079(4)(b). And where a support waiver would leave you eligible for public assistance when the marriage ends, a court may order the other party to support you notwithstanding the agreement — to the extent needed to avoid that eligibility.
The schedules attached to the agreement are the foundation of everything you're waiving, and they're where § 61.079(7)(a)3 lives. Itemized, or rounded off? Does the business carry a stated value with a basis behind it? A drafting side that resists a reasonable disclosure question has told you something.
Different parts of one agreement answer to different rules. A waiver of spousal estate rights — elective share, intestate share, homestead, exempt property, family allowance — must be signed by the waiving party before two subscribing witnesses under § 732.702(1), which applies to Florida residents. Out-of-state forms miss this constantly, and the defect doesn't surface until someone dies.
Sources: Fla. Stat. § 61.079(4)(b), § 61.079(7)(a)3 and § 61.079(7)(b); Fla. Stat. § 732.702(1) (2026).
Most reviews find something. That's the point of running one, and it isn't a crisis.
Prenup terms move more often than people expect — the drafting side wants an agreement that is durable, not brittle. The asks that tend to land: a sunset or step-up tied to the length of the marriage; a support floor instead of a bare waiver; carve-outs for the marital home, your own earnings, and growth in your own retirement accounts; life insurance securing what the agreement promises; a mutual attorney's-fee clause in place of a one-way one.
Pursuing them is Review & Revisions — $1,450* flat, quoted in writing before it starts. We put the asks to the other lawyer professionally and without drama; you are marrying this person, and protecting that is part of the job.
If you decide to sign against the advice, that stays your decision, and it stays documented. What we won't do is tell you a document is fine when it isn't.
Then the calendar is the most important fact you have, and you should call (407) 749-1034 rather than wait on a form. A review that comes back within 24 hours of the attorney having the agreement is built for exactly this. Weddings inside 45 days carry a $500 rush fee on top of the $500 flat fee — $1,000 in total, quoted in writing before you commit to anything.
Florida sets no minimum waiting period — nothing in § 61.079 requires any gap between signing and the ceremony. But a last-minute signing is the classic setup for the voluntariness and duress arguments in § 61.079(7)(a), and that cuts both ways: a risk to you now, and a weakness in the agreement your fiancé is paying for. Slowing down usually serves both of you, and it lands better from your lawyer than from you.
When the runway really is days, there are three honest options:
What we won't do is bless a document nobody had time to read.
Source: Fla. Stat. § 61.079(6) and § 61.079(7)(a) (2026).
What you tell us is treated as confidential whether or not you go on to hire us. The conflict check runs before the attorney reads a page; if your fiancé or their lawyer has already contacted this firm, you hear so at once and we go no further.
We do not contact your fiancé, their lawyer, or anyone else unless you tell us to. Getting your own read on the agreement is something you're entitled to do quietly — engaging us does not commit you to negotiate, to mention that you called, or to refuse to sign.
Michael T. Mackhanlall, Esq. — a member of The Florida Bar, 15+ years in Florida courtrooms, founder of Mack Law P.A. He reads the agreement, writes the analysis, and takes the call himself.
That matters for one specific reason: the person telling you whether this agreement holds is the person who litigates these agreements when they are attacked.
Three fields. The attorney calls you, usually the same day — and your written analysis is back within 24 hours of him having the agreement. $500* flat, quoted before you commit.
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