What is the Uniform Pre-Marital Agreement Act?
This act has been adopted by 26 states and the District of Columbia (Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Virginia). It provides legal guidelines for unmarried couples who wish to make agreements in anticipation of marriage regarding ownership, management, and control of property and assets; property and asset disposition upon separation, divorce and death; alimony; wills and life insurance beneficiaries. The statute expressly prohibits couples from including provisions concerning child support. Pre-marital agreements are permitted in states that have not adopted this uniform statute, but are subject to different guidelines in those states.
