What a First® prenup does for you
A prenup built around your life, whatever that looks like
Founder, teacher, parent, saver... no matter what your situation is, a First® online prenup is for you. Explore the scenarios below to see how a prenup does specific work and how they benefit everyone who chooses to craft one.
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Every First® prenup is drafted for your situation and your state's law.
Start by getting aligned with your partner: the guided questionnaire and alignment module walk you both through the decisions that matter, so the agreement reflects what you actually decide.
You built something
A company is the asset most likely to be misread in a divorce, and the one a template handles worst. These prenups define what stays yours: the entity, its growth, and what happens to both.
Startup founders
Founder shares, vesting, future rounds, and the company you started before the wedding.
Business owners
SMBs, single-member LLCs, and S-corps: keeping the business separate while you run it married.
Entrepreneurs
Marrying while you build: how income, reinvestment, and new ventures get treated.
Venture capitalists
Carried interest, fund cycles, and GP stakes have timelines a divorce court doesn't share.
You earn in equity
When compensation arrives as RSUs, options, or bonus structures, the line between separate and marital property moves every vesting date. A prenup fixes it in writing.
Tech workers
RSUs, options, and refreshers: what vests during marriage and what that means.
AI company employees
Fast-appreciating equity and secondary sales, at valuations that change between offer and wedding.
Finance professionals
Bonus-heavy comp, deferred payouts, and co-invest positions, defined before they blur.
Wealth advisors
You plan this for clients. Your book of business and its value deserve the same treatment.
You create and perform
Royalties, rights, and a name people know. Creative income outlives projects and marriages, and who owns it should never be an open question.
Content creators
Channels, brand deals, and an audience you built: keeping the business of you, yours.
Athletes
Short careers, front-loaded earnings, and NIL money need protection that matches the timeline.
Musicians
Masters, publishing, and royalties: streams keep paying long after the split.
Filmmakers
Backend points, residuals, and rights to work made before and during the marriage.
Actors
Irregular income, residuals, and likeness rights, handled without a court guessing your average year.
Designers
IP, client equity, and studio ownership for people whose work is the asset.
Family money, kept in the family
Trusts, inheritances, and children from before this marriage. These prenups make sure what was meant for your family reaches it.
People with trusts
How a prenup and a trust work together, and why one doesn't replace the other.
People with an inheritance
Inheritances start separate and stop being separate fast. Keeping yours intact takes a line in writing.
Protecting your kids' inheritance
A new marriage shouldn't rewrite your children's future. Here's how to make sure it can't.
Marrying again
Second and third marriages come with assets, obligations, and lessons. Your prenup should reflect all three.
Your career comes with a pension, a license, or both
Pensions and professional practices are among the most commonly divided assets in divorce, and the least understood. Define them now, while it's easy.
Veterans & military members
Military benefits, retirement pay, and deployments: rules most prenups get wrong.
First responders
Your pension is decades of shift work. Keep it from becoming the most contested item in a divorce.
Professors & teachers
403(b)s, state pensions, and tenure-track income, protected the way they were earned: slowly.
Physicians & healthcare professionals
High income, higher student debt, and a practice you may own. All three belong in the agreement.
Attorneys
You know what discovery costs. Partnership stakes and firm equity, settled in advance.
Your money has a plan
Whether you're saving aggressively, paying down loans, or staying home to raise kids, a prenup writes the plan down so it survives contact with real life.
FIRE & aggressive savers
A decade of discipline shouldn't be divisible by default. Protect the portfolio and the plan.
Student loan holders
Whose debt is whose, and what happens to loans paid down with shared income.
One partner has debt
Marrying someone's debt is optional. A prenup makes the choice explicit, kindly.
Property & real estate owners
Homes bought before the wedding, and what mortgage payments during marriage do to them.
Stay-at-home parents & homemakers
Leaving the workforce is a financial decision. A prenup can guarantee it's a protected one.
And the rest of life
Some situations don't fit a category, and plenty of couples don't either. A First prenup starts with your answers and is tailored for each couple.
Pet owners
Courts treat pets as property. Your prenup can treat them as family, with custody decided by you.
International couples
Different citizenships, assets abroad, or a green card in progress: which country's rules apply, and when.
Couples without complex assets (yet)
No house, no equity, no trust. A prenup still settles how you'll treat what you build together, while agreeing is easy.
Middle-income couples
Prenups aren't a wealth product. For most couples, the value is deciding together, in writing, before it matters.
Not sure you need one at all
A fair question with an honest answer: what a prenup actually does, and how to know whether it earns a place in your marriage.
Need help deciding what's right for you?
Book a free consultation and talk it through with our team. No commitment, and you'll leave knowing what your situation calls for and where to start together.
People also ask
Do I need a prenup if I don't have many assets?
Yes, a prenup can be worth the most before there is much to divide. It sets out how you and your partner will treat what you each build during the marriage, from savings to a first home, while agreeing is still easy. Our guide to prenups when you don't have assets yet walks through what to consider.
Are prenups only for the wealthy?
No. Most First® couples are not founders or heirs; they are two people who would rather decide things together than leave them to state law. See do middle-income couples need a prenup for how the value holds up at ordinary incomes.
What if my situation isn't listed on this page?
Nothing changes. The situations above are common starting points, not a menu you have to pick from. Every First® agreement is drafted from your answers and your state's law, so a situation we haven't named still gets its own treatment. If you'd rather talk it through, book a free consultation.
Can one prenup cover more than one of these situations?
Yes. Many people are a founder and a parent, or a saver with student loans and a pet. One agreement covers all of it, because it is built from your full picture rather than a single category.
How do we get on the same page before anything is drafted?
That is the point of the process. The guided questionnaire and alignment module walk you and your partner through the decisions that matter, together, so the agreement you sign reflects what you actually agreed. If you are earlier than that, start with what a prenup is and whether you need one.
How much does a First prenup cost?
Self-Serve is $649 all-in with notarization included, and Lawyer Review is a flat $3,500 with an independent attorney for each partner. Bespoke is priced to the situation. The packages below break down what each includes.
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Three packages, one platform
Whatever your situation, every First® prenup is built on a foundation designed with family law attorneys, with online notarization included.
Self-Serve
The guided path. You complete the agreement yourself on the First platform.
$649
all-in, notarization included
Lawyer Review
Independent representation for both of you, every step handled on the platform.
$3,500
flat, an independent attorney for each partner
Bespoke
For situations that need more: complex assets, multiple entities, cross-border questions.
Custom
priced to the situation