Uniform Premarital Agreement Act

You've amassed a fortune with your line of deer antler spray personal hygiene products. You've focused on business for most of your life, but you've decided to settle down now, proposing to a dancer at your favorite club.

The wedding is set for spring, but your lawyer is insisting on a prenup.

Except in a handful of states, the details of the agreement will be dictated by the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act. It represents a set of guidelines, first drawn up in 1983, meant to give some standardization to the laws surrounding prenuptial agreements.

Most states have passed laws conforming to the UPAA, though Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, and West Virginia remain holdouts. Curiously, since your lawyer explained all this, your love keeps talking about how lovely it would be to get married in Biloxi...