We offer a simple, cost-effective, and quick way to have your prenuptial agreement, cohabitation agreement, or post nuptial agreement professionally prepared by Ottawa lawyers.
Step 1 – Pay a Flat Fee
Select the service – a prenuptial agreement, a cohabitation agreement, a post nuptial agreement, or independent legal advice – that best suits your needs, and make payment.
Step 2 – Provide Information
There is a fair bit of information we need to get started – we need to know in great detail what your financial situation is, what your partner’s financial situation is, what your goals are for your agreement, what you and your partner have agreed do, previous marriages, children, and so on. To gather this information efficiently, we’ve put together a comprehensive questionnaire. We will email this to you to be completed and returned to us.
Don’t worry about not knowing the answers to everything in the questionnaire – just do the best you can as we will review your answers in detail and discuss them with you. Feel free to add any additional notes.
Step 3 – Sign & Finalize
Once we’ve reviewed your completed questionnaire, we get started. We ask any follow up questions or clarify anything that is unclear. We are then ready to draft your agreement. Normally we are able to do this within 2 business days.
Once your agreement is drafted, we will email it to you for review. We include a detailed cover letter explaining the legalese in layman’s terms, so that you understand the agreement. If you have any questions, or would like any changes, just let us know, and we will answer your questions and make the requested changes.
Once we are both satisfied with the draft of your agreement, you give it to your partner so that they can review it. We strongly recommend – for your protection – that your partner also have a lawyer for this process. The reason for this is that it prevents claims down the line that they did not understand the agreement, they did not understand their legal rights, or they were pressured into signing the agreement.
Your partner then reviews the agreement with their lawyer, who explains it to them and makes sure that they understand it, their legal rights and obligations, and how the agreement impacts their rights and obligations. If after this you and your partner agree to make some changes to the agreement, let us know and we will make the changes. Once your partner is satisfied with everything, we finalize the agreement. We send you the finalized agreement with signing instructions.