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Social Media Pre-nups (by WalkSoftly)

 WalkSoftly 
10-Jun-14 9:57 pm
"" A husband and wife are on a romantic
vacation at a beach resort. The husband,
thinking his wife looks hot, snaps a photo
with his phone of her in her bathing suit and
posts it to Facebook and Instagram. The wife,
hating the way she looks in a bathing suit,
finds out about the photo after her phone
starts blowing up with notifications that she
had been tagged and the comments are
flooding in.
She demands he take down the photo. He'd
better do it, too -- or he might have to fork
over thousands of dollars.
In an age where we are constantly seeking
instant gratification through our social media
connections, more couples are seeking the so-
called “social media prenup,” a written
document, or often simply a discussion, that
addresses what’s acceptable to share online
about each other, sometimes with serious
consequences.
“This is relatively new,” said Ann-Margaret
Carrozza, a New York-based attorney who
specializes in estate planning.
Carrozza has been doing prenuptial
agreements for 10 years and only in recent
months has she seen couples interested in
including a social media clause. Carrozza
said she does five so-called “love contracts,”
or lifestyle provisions in prenups or post-
nuptial agreements, per week and started
offering social media clauses for those
negotiations about two months ago. In that
time, she said, about a third of her clients
have been interested in having such a clause
in writing.
“It’s a huge issue because we all know this
stuff, once it’s out there, you can’t shake it,”
Carrozza said. “It can be humiliating. It can
be painful. ... It’s really no joke, and I expect
this clause to become much more important
with any of the other contracts.”
A typical social media clause will state that
couples can’t post nude photos, embarrassing
photos or photos or posts that are likely to
harm a spouse’s professional reputation,
Carrozza said. Her clients don’t pick and
choose between what’s acceptable for
Facebook versus Instagram, but do more of a
blanket provision for all social media.
“There might be a bathing suit photo that
might be particularly embarrassing,” Carrozza
said. “Posting that would have to be cleared.”
With her clients, Carrozza said, the penalty for
violating the social media clause has been
monetary. The amount set depends on a
person’s wealth, she said, but, for example,
for someone living in New York City who
makes below $5 million, Carrozza said, “the
clause we’re using with it is $50,000 per
episode,” meaning per post or per tweet.""
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 sweetnspice 
10-Jun-14 10:08 pm
More common sense being replaced by stupidity.

 

 

 
 
 mrb89 
10-Jun-14 10:46 pm
Smdh. Honestly this is dumb. If she'd been nude, or siminude, I could see demanding that it be removed, but simply because you "don't like how you look in it" screams B*TCH to me...

 

 

 
 
 WalkSoftly 
10-Jun-14 10:54 pm
Smdh. Honestly this is dumb. If she'd been nude, or siminude, I could see demanding that it be removed, but simply because you "don't like how you look in it" screams B*TCH to me...
Lmao ikr?

 

 

 
 
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