The world of the prenuptial agreement is continuing to evolve, with the latest being dubbed the social media prenup. It would be rare to find someone in today’s modern world that doesn’t own a smart phone, and who doesn’t have a Facebook, twitter, or instagram account.
However this leaves couples engaged in abreak up vulnerable to their email being account is hacked into or personal photographs being posted over the internet that were never intended for sharing by a bitter spouse.
Chaninat and Leeds specialise in divorce law in Thailand
CTV News has explained this has now led to the rise of a social media prenup, that would work in a similar manner to non disclosure/confidentiality agreements used in Thailand employment law to prevent employees revealing confidential and sensitive business information about the company once their employment has been terminated.
Under Thai prenuptial law, a valid prenuptial agreement must be officially registered in Thailand before the marriage. The concept of a social prenuptial agreements is certainly applicable to Thailand given that the country was placed 9th in 2011 amongst countries in Asia, for the largest amount of Internet users, according to Internet World Stats, and the total number of mobile phone uses amounts to an incredible 105% of the total population.
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