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General Provisions of Marital Agreements
Allows a minor to make a valid premarital agreement or other marital property agreement
By Chris Micheli, October 11, 2025 2:30 am
California’s Family Code, in Division 4, Part 5, Chapter 1, provides general provisions for marital agreements in this state. Section 1500 provides that the property rights of spouses prescribed by statute may be altered by a premarital agreement or other marital property agreement.
Section 1501 allows a minor to make a valid premarital agreement or other marital property agreement if the minor is emancipated, is otherwise capable of contracting marriage, or has entered or is entering a marriage that is valid in the jurisdiction where the marriage is solemnized.
Section 1502 specifies that a premarital agreement or other marital property agreement that is executed and acknowledged or proved in the manner that a grant of real property is required to be executed and acknowledged or proved may be recorded in the office of the recorder of each county in which real property affected by the agreement is situated.
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Any man getting married without a “premarital agreement” is out of his mind, especially in California. Women almost always select men who make more money than they do. The family courts have literally resulted in men being homeless after a divorce. How would you like to pay some woman alimony for the rest of your life who cheated on you, falsely accused you of physical abuse to her or your children, or completely ceased wanting sex? This happens every day.
Don’t just blindly sign marriage contracts, which are the most important contracts you will likely ever enter into. Love is out the window in a divorce.