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Premarital Agreements Mediation: Prenuptial agreements or premarital agreements which are prepared using a mediator and the mediation process. Using prenuptial or premarital mediation to draft an agreement allows the couple to determine the subjects the agreement covers as well as to fully discuss the issues together, rather than individually with individual lawyers. After the agreement is discussed and drafted in mediation, couples are advised to see an individual attorney (one for each fiancé) to review the agreement before signing. This process saves both money and aggravation because the couple first makes the important decisions about what to include in the agreement and what the terms of the agreement will be, and then uses their individual attorneys simply for a review and fine-tuning rather than an adversarial back-and-forth drafting of agreements.