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so what's the deal with the little space in contracts and some contracts where you have to put your initials is that necessary and do wedding professionals need to do the same thing find out in today's video [Music] hey out there welcome back to wedding industry law my name is rob i am an attorney representing wedding industry professionals and the question of the day is do you in your client contract need to require the client to not only sign the contract but to initial every page or maybe even every paragraph some people out there do that but is there any type of legal requirement or some type of obligation legally that you have to do that the short answer is no there are almost no jurisdictions that i can think of that would require you in your service contract with your client to require them to initial anything okay now let me just quickly say that the idea of the signature in getting a signature meaning the full person's name is important you know in order to really be able to reinforce and have evidence that the couple has agreed to something is to get their signature it shows that they have what's called manifested intent to be bound by the terms of the contract that they have signed right so it also in many instances verifies the version of the contract that um that they've signed so there could be multiple versions of a contract perhaps leading up to the final version floating around and it's the one that actually has a signature is the one that the parties have agreed to so but but that's that's a signature what why do why is there a situation or why are there situations in which somebody has thought it prudent for initials and the answer is that there are some jurisdictions out there where it's can avoid a contract or make the contract voidable if the contract sticks inside of it crazy terms so if your contract is three or four pages and you know it's in fine print and it's for wedding florist you're a wedding florist and the couple is wanting flowers from you but there's contract 36b subpart a1g in tiny print that says that they have to name their first born child after you and they didn't see that because it's in little print there are jurisdictions that are not going to hold that up that they're not going to enforce that because it was not conspicuous enough in the contract aside from being against public policy but it wasn't conspicuous it needs to be um bold font not lost in a sea of terms so in other words if it's an aberration to the typical contract and it's hidden it won't be enforced so in at least some instances in which people have to initial things it's to get around that that hey listen it's we're not trying to hide this...