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Certified Prenuptial Agreement Translation

eVerbary translates your prenuptial agreement into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.

Why these get translated

A prenuptial or postnuptial agreement signed abroad turns up in a US file for three reasons: a divorce where one party asks a US court to enforce it, an estate where the agreement governs what the surviving spouse can claim, and an immigration file where a marital property arrangement has to be explained.

In all three the court is reading the agreement to decide what it does, so the translation has to reproduce the operative clauses exactly. A summary of "the parties agreed to separate property" is not a translation of a document that runs to twenty numbered clauses with exceptions.

Marital property regimes have no US equivalent

Most civil law countries let couples elect a named matrimonial property regime at marriage, and the agreement is frequently short because it does no more than elect one. Séparation de biens, communauté réduite aux acquêts, Gütertrennung, separación de bienes, comunhão parcial de bens, regime di separazione dei beni — each is a defined body of law, not a phrase.

Translating one as "separate property" loses the content, because the regime carries default rules the document never states. We render the regime by its own name with a plain-English gloss, so a US judge can see that a named statutory scheme is being invoked and look it up.

The notarial form is part of the substance

In much of the civil law world a prenuptial agreement is void unless made as a notarial deed, and in some countries it must also be registered — in a marital property register, in the civil registry, or noted on the marriage record.

So the notary's clause, the protocol number and the registration entry are not formalities to be summarised. They are what makes the agreement enforceable, and a US court asked to apply foreign law will look for them. We translate them in full.

Independent advice, disclosure and the enforceability questions

US courts examining a foreign prenuptial agreement typically ask whether there was financial disclosure, whether each party had independent legal advice, whether the signing was voluntary, and how close to the wedding it was signed.

Foreign agreements often recite exactly these things — that the notary read the deed aloud, that the parties declared their assets in an annex, that an interpreter was present. Those recitals are the evidence, and we translate them rather than compressing them into "the parties signed".

The annexes are usually where the money is

A prenuptial agreement commonly attaches schedules of assets — property with registry references, company shareholdings, accounts — and those annexes are part of the instrument.

A translation of the clauses without the schedules answers the wrong question. We translate the annexes with the agreement, keeping the figures, the currencies and the registry references exactly as written.

How it works

Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.

A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.

Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.

Certified vs. standard translation

A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.

A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.

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