What Texas Law Allows

Texas enforces premarital agreements under Chapter 4 of the Family Code. Spouses may define separate and community property, control how income from separate property is characterized, address spousal support, allocate business interests, and dispose of property on divorce or death. What an agreement cannot do is adversely affect a child's right to support — courts will not enforce provisions that trade away children's interests. Within those bounds, Texas gives engaged couples wide latitude, and the agreement controls over the default community property regime.

Where Prenups Fail — and How Ours Are Built

A Texas premarital agreement is enforceable unless the challenging spouse proves it was signed involuntarily, or that it was unconscionable when signed and executed without fair disclosure of the other party's property and obligations. Every attack on a prenup runs through those elements. That is why our drafting process is documentation-heavy by design:

Full, documented disclosure

Schedules of assets, liabilities, and income attached to the agreement itself — eliminating the disclosure attack before it exists.

Timing and independent counsel

Agreements signed on the courthouse steps of the wedding invite involuntariness claims. We build a signing timeline and recommend separate counsel for each party, because an agreement that was easy to sign is easy to challenge.

Precision on the business and the practice

For business owners and professionals, the agreement addresses not just the entity but its growth, distributions, and commingling risk — the places community claims actually arise.