Having worked on agreements of trust I have had both good and bad experiences. I had one client whom I had developed a beautiful blog for that was actually star

Having worked on agreements of trust I have had both good and bad experiences. I had one client whom I had developed a beautiful blog for that was actually starting to get half decent advertising revenue and traffic. Having known the person for a few months outside of the professional relationship, I agreed to work for considerably less than I would have normally. The person had the experience necessary to sell the product, but none of the technical know-how or understanding. They could barely understand how to use technology. They also wanted to consume a huge amount of my time, and at times unnecessarily. After doing some initial brainstorming and kind of getting a feel for the project we decided on terms. Some cash weekly + equity. After delivering a beautiful site and working with the guy to get posts and adverts processed, I was supposed to have started to receive additional payments due to revenue coming in. This wasn't happening. I attempted to explain that I couldn't continue without getting the payments promised and knew that there was no legitimate reason payment couldn't be made. There was almost zero overhead. After a few days of trying to stand my ground, I informed him that I would no longer be willing to work on the project. He tried to convince me to continue to train a replacement without pay. I laughed and explained that I wouldn't help him find someone else to cheat, and that no amount of money could at this point get me to continue working for him. The moral of the story that I took out of this is simple, the relationship works well when partners recognize the importance of fairness and understand the importance of each other and their worth. I think that a huge factor in these relationships is finding someone to work with that doesn't have an over inflated ego. On the converse, legal agreements are drafted for one reason: to protect oneself and remain within the law, and they are intrinsically selfish. Legal agreements that are intended to provide protection and establish terms fairly generally will only be a few pages and can be interpreted by anyone capable of analytical thinking.