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February 1, 2011

Virtual Property or Community Property: Give Me Half your Farmville Points and Facebook Friends or the Real World Cash Equivalent!

There’s an interesting and potentially unsettling article on the MIT Technology Review, How Much Will your Facebook Friends Be Worth in Court?, by Christopher Mims. The article’s tag line reads, “Legal scholars declare that virtual property must be divided or reimbursed in divorce proceedings,” which begs the question, how does one divide or cede over […]

Filed Under: Divorce, Legal, Negative Advocates, News Tagged With: community property, divorce, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Farmville, high-conflict, high-conflict divorce, joint assets, microtransaction, Sally Brown Richardson, virtual property, Zynga

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