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Imagine you are about to get married and your future husband presents you with a prenuptial agreement. Now, it's modern times and prenups aren't exactly uncommon or deal breakers for everyone. People are well aware that, sometimes, relationships end and should that happen, a prenup is there to protect each person's property and keep things fair. But not everyone sees it that way, as a troubling Reddit post demonstrated. In the recent post, a woman asked Reddit for advice on the prenup her fiancé presented her that demanded she lose all the baby weight she might gain during pregnancy.
The anonymous woman took to Reddit last week to share a rather confusing situation. It seems she is engaged to a successful neurosurgeon in Manhattan who wants her to sign a prenup. As she shared in the post, she was apparently game at first, happy enough to go along with a prenup if it would set her future husband's mind at ease. But then she had a look through the prenup with her lawyer, who I should also mention is apparently her future father-in-law, and she started to change her mind.
Sure, that sounds a bit unromantic, but that's not the most outrageous part of it all.
Apparently, the Reddit poster's future husband wants her to sign a contract promising to lose all of her baby weight within one year if she has children.
"Along with that, he put in a clause that stated that I have to lose any weight I gain after child birth, at least 30lbs of it in the first year following childbirth," she shared in her Reddit post.
... it's pre birth weight, peak pregnancy weight, post birth and then an annual weigh in to see if I have complied. "At least 30lbs" he told me that means if I gain 40lbs as unlikely as that may be, I'd have to lose at least 30lbs of it in the first year, then the rest the year following unless I get pregnant again and then it's gonna be added to the next child birth weight.
Reddit users were quick to offer advice when the anonymous poster said she hadn't yet signed the prenup and wasn't sure what to do, and many urged her to get her own lawyer to look out for her interests.
Beyond voices on Reddit, Randall M. Kessler of Kessler & Solomiany Family Law — also the author of the book Divorce Protect Yourself — tells Romper that it would "be very hard to find a lawyer that actually had one of these clauses enforced."
But, as outrageous as it sounds and unenforceable as it may be, why even include a clause like that to begin with? As Kessler explains, an upsetting clause like this is perhaps meant to "motivate people to certain behavior."
"In other words, if she’s afraid that she might violate the prenuptial agreement and forfeit the benefit, she will like to try harder to comply with it. Even if it is not enforceable by the court. Especially if maintaining certain weight is specifically difficult in a certain situation," Kessler tells Romper.
Kessler went on to explain, however, that it is "plausible that a lawyer could argue that the party was a grown adult and did not have to sign such an agreement." He added, "Because it is not an agreement to do something illegal such as buy or use an illegal drug, the court might very well determine that a grown person had a choice to not sign the document and to not get married, but because they did sign it, they are stuck with the consequences of their decisions."
Another lawyer, Leon Mindin of the Law Offices of Mindin & Mindin in New York, where the anonymous Reddit user lives, shared some interesting insight on the purpose of prenups. As Mindin explained to Romper, "Prenups are meant to resolve mainly financial issues to allow parties to quickly settle issues for divorce."
But most noteworthy, as Mindin tells Romper, is that simply, a clause like that "is unenforceable" because "prenuptial agreements are not enforceable during the course of the marriage."
Mindin added, "A prenup cannot direct someone to act a certain way or that they are required to do something during the marriage. No attorney would put that type of language into an agreement."
With all this said, it seems the advice she received on Reddit worked, as the woman told commenters, as Yahoo! Lifestyle reported, that she plans to hire her own lawyer and will ask that the weight loss and infidelity clauses "go both ways."It was a hot sultry afternoon. During the summer time in Papua New Guinea, the weather was unbearable. To add to the misery, in this island village of Ramotha, there were but few trees and very little plantation. Relief came only when it rained or when the cool summer breeze blew from across the sea a good time after the sundown.
Marthua, though, cares little for the weather. He lives life in his own terms, doesn’t make friends with people and passes time with his only companion, a viola. His abode in the outskirt of the village is a simple hutment, with simpler belongings inside – a 6′ X 4′ cot, a chair and a table, a low height stool, a stove, an icebox, some kitchen appliances, few utensils, cutlery and his favourite rocking chair which was always placed – come sunshine or rain – in a none too long verandah adjacent to his room.
However, the first thing that’ll catch the eye of any visitor to his house – and visitors were mighty rare, only once in a blue moon one may say – is the great many number of bottles of rum and whiskey strewn all around. Marthua was a heavy drinker and used to pass all sixteen hours he used to be awake in a drunken state. He inherited a good sum of money from his grandfather who made a fortune in his youth by selling logs in Cairns. Marthua was brought up by his grandfather as he lost both his parents before he turned ten. His grandmother, a frail but handsome lady, gave him the care of his mother and taught him to play the viola before she died prematurely at fifty five.
Marthua never went to school. But his grandmother taught him at home. He learnt how to sign his name. His grandfather taught him two things – how to swim and how to get a good catch of fish from the sea by riding a small trawler. Marthua was quick to pick up the trade and at this age of thirty-five, he was a maven at fishing. He’d go out in the sea once or twice in a month, and bring back a large haul of fish. His icebox was always packed with fishes of 4-5 kinds and a few essential vegetables like potato, onion, tomato, cabbage and the like.
Ramotha had a sparse population, 30-40 families of nearly 200 denizens. Everybody knew everybody else but none liked Marthua. He was churlish, rather boorish, in his manners and in his ways of speaking. Almost invariably he will pick up a quarrel with someone he came by on his way to the Post Office – the only government outpost and the lone representative of the outside world, the so called civilised mainland. His doddering steps could be recognised from a distance and when close by, he really smelt foul, almost stank, for scarcely did he take his bath save the occasions when he went out fishing in the sea.
But Marthua was in love, in love with the most charming damsel of Ramotha, Nanthea. Nanthea was attractively tall, vivacious, and always talking nineteen to the dozen. Men of Ramotha called her a siren but dared not go near her. Nanthea was both a narcissist and a nymphomaniac rolled into a fleshy, luscious body at which men of Ramotha could only lewdly look at.
Nanthea entertained only white, wealthy foreigners from Bamaga across the Gulf of Papua. She bedded those who gifted her beautiful clothes and articles, beside large dollops of money. She lived with a slothful uncle and a termagant aunt. Like Marthua, her parents died long before she reached her puberty. Nanthea kept the family hearth burning and her uncle and aunt, quite understandably, turned a blind eye to her indulgences, her cravings for more and more sex and, of course, for money and other valuables.
The thirty odd families in Ramotha despised and avoided Nanthea. The womenfolk were normally not allowed to go near Nanthea’s house, let alone making friends with her.
Thus, for different reasons