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A conversation first
Call or book a visit. Fifteen minutes on the phone is usually enough to work out what you have, what you need, and whether a box is the right answer at all. Sometimes it is not, and we will say so.
Florida Intervault · Fort Lauderdale · since 1983
Everything in one place,
before anyone needs it.
Prenups, wills, deeds and the records of what was yours before the marriage — held in one room, in one family-run vault, on a signed inventory you keep a copy of.
Not a bank. Every visit is identified and recorded. We store; we never advise.
It would have been so much easier if everything had been in one place. The prenup especially.
What we hear most from clients who have been through a divorce
Family-owned since
1983
Vault rating
9R
Vault doors
2 × 14,000 lb
Hurricane engineering
Cat 5
A year, from
$795
What we keep
The paperwork a marriage runs on, and the paperwork it ends on.
Where you are
The advice changes with who you are in this.
- You signed a prenup years agoIt was signed in a lawyer's office before the wedding, and neither of you has looked at it since. That is the normal case, not the careless one.
- You are facing financial disclosureMandatory disclosure arrives as a list, with a deadline, at the worst possible moment. Most of the pain is not legal. It is filing.
- Family law attorneysYou need a referral that will not become a problem in your file. That is a shorter list than it should be.
- Before anyone has filedThere is usually a period where nothing has been filed and both people are thinking. It is the easiest time to do this and the one nobody uses.
How it works
Four quiet steps. None of them hurried.
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Intake, on paper
You are identified against government-issued photo ID. Everything that goes in is listed on a signed inventory, and you keep a copy. What exists becomes a document rather than a memory.
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The box
A private box in a 9R-rated vault behind two 14,000-pound doors, engineered for a Category 5 storm. Rented in your name, jointly, or by a trust — whichever your attorney recommends.
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When you need it
Access by appointment, identified and logged every time. Originals come out when they are needed and go back when they are not. Producing a document becomes an errand instead of a project.
Questions people ask
Straight answers.
Including the unhelpful ones. Where a question is legal rather than practical we say so, because a storage company answering it would be doing you harm.
All 14 questions →A prenup, or prenuptial agreement, is a written contract two people sign before marrying that sets out how property, debts and finances will be treated if the marriage ends. Whether a specific agreement holds up is a question for a family-law attorney.
The document matters most at the moment nobody planned for, often decades after it was signed. By then the lawyer who drafted it may have retired and the firm may have merged or closed. The original — with every schedule and exhibit still attached — is what counsel will ask for. We do not draft, review or interpret agreements. We keep the original safe, in one place, where the person who needs it can reach it.
The full answer →A prenuptial agreement is usually held by the attorney who drafted it, by one or both spouses, or in a safe deposit box or private vault. Whoever holds it, the original needs to survive decades and stay producible by the person who needs it.
A Florida divorce involves court forms plus mandatory financial disclosure, which usually means tax returns, pay records, bank and investment statements, deeds, titles, loan documents and any marital agreement. The exact list for a case is set by the attorney handling it.
A financial affidavit is a sworn statement of each spouse's income, expenses, assets and liabilities, filed in a Florida divorce on a form the court publishes. Accurate figures depend on having the statements, titles and records behind them.
Preparing financially for divorce usually starts with locating originals — tax returns, statements, deeds, titles, loan documents and any marital agreement — and listing what exists and where. Strategy belongs to a family-law attorney and a financial professional; organization is the part within your control.
Florida law treats assets acquired by either party before the marriage, and assets acquired in exchange for them, as nonmarital. Whether a particular asset keeps that status depends on the records that show it, which is a question for an attorney.
Said plainly
What we do not do.
The things that make it safe for an attorney to send you here.
How we handle legal process →- We are not a bank. A box is a private contract for space, not a deposit account.
- Contents are not FDIC insured — and neither are the contents of a bank's box. Insurance is arranged separately against a declared value.
- We do not give legal, tax or financial advice, and we will not be drawn into it.
- Every access is identified and recorded, and valid subpoenas and court orders are honored. We do not offer anonymity.
- We do not mediate, hold escrow or take sides. We hold paperwork and possessions.
Know someone going through this?
Send them the page, not the advice.
People take this from a friend far better than from a company. Share it in your own words.
Visits are by appointment, so the room is yours while you are in it.