Hi All,
Often, people go to court with very strong and unsubstantiated allegations of "stalking", "cyber stalking" and other subjective statements against the other parent.
I am always recommend, as do a number of (over 300 by my tracking) law firms in North America, that parents in separation and divorce not disclose personal information on the public internet that they wouldn't want the other parent to know and especially a judge.
Recently in the Metro News an article appeared which, although not related to "family law" did contain a very strong statement from Const. Dennis Rivest of the London Police Force that I think is relevant:
Man charged by London police for impersonating cop on dating website | Metro
I also remind everyone who has matters before the public court system that it is a public system. When two parents fail to settle their matters in a private setting between themselves, mediation or through arbitration, your public Tweets, Facebook comments, SMS messages, emails and other social media use may become evidence in court.
Furthermore, just because you make your profile private to the 150+ friends you have or the 6000 twitter followers you have doesn't make it "private" to the courts.
So, if you want to live a "private" life filing an Application to the public court system may not be your best avenue for dispute resolution... If you are willing to share your private life with the internet... As Const. Dennis Rivest states... “... you choose to put it there — that’s your choice."
Don't go lamenting to the court that you gave up your whole theory of the case on Facebook and it gets submitted as evidence and trying to claim that the other parent is "cyber stalking" you. "... you choose to put it there - that's your choice."
I am reading a lot of case law on the allegations of "stalking" and "cyber stalking" as of late. The courts are not buying the allegation and are making similar statements as Const. Dennis Rivest to litigants attempting to paint the other parent as a "stalker" and/or "cyber stalker" for knowing truthful facts that the lamenting party posted on a public forum.
Good Luck!
Tayken
Often, people go to court with very strong and unsubstantiated allegations of "stalking", "cyber stalking" and other subjective statements against the other parent.
I am always recommend, as do a number of (over 300 by my tracking) law firms in North America, that parents in separation and divorce not disclose personal information on the public internet that they wouldn't want the other parent to know and especially a judge.
Recently in the Metro News an article appeared which, although not related to "family law" did contain a very strong statement from Const. Dennis Rivest of the London Police Force that I think is relevant:
However, he warns residents of the general dangers of owning an on-line profile with personal information readily available to anyone.
“People will set up their profiles, put a lot of information in it, and some of that information doesn’t necessarily need to be out there,” Rivest said. “If you choose to put it there, you choose to put it there — that’s your choice."
“People will set up their profiles, put a lot of information in it, and some of that information doesn’t necessarily need to be out there,” Rivest said. “If you choose to put it there, you choose to put it there — that’s your choice."
I also remind everyone who has matters before the public court system that it is a public system. When two parents fail to settle their matters in a private setting between themselves, mediation or through arbitration, your public Tweets, Facebook comments, SMS messages, emails and other social media use may become evidence in court.
Furthermore, just because you make your profile private to the 150+ friends you have or the 6000 twitter followers you have doesn't make it "private" to the courts.
So, if you want to live a "private" life filing an Application to the public court system may not be your best avenue for dispute resolution... If you are willing to share your private life with the internet... As Const. Dennis Rivest states... “... you choose to put it there — that’s your choice."
Don't go lamenting to the court that you gave up your whole theory of the case on Facebook and it gets submitted as evidence and trying to claim that the other parent is "cyber stalking" you. "... you choose to put it there - that's your choice."
I am reading a lot of case law on the allegations of "stalking" and "cyber stalking" as of late. The courts are not buying the allegation and are making similar statements as Const. Dennis Rivest to litigants attempting to paint the other parent as a "stalker" and/or "cyber stalker" for knowing truthful facts that the lamenting party posted on a public forum.
Good Luck!
Tayken
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