SOCIAL NETWORKING EVIDENCE
The explosion of social networking websites in recent years has had some unintended consequences for many people: the details of their life are being downloaded as evidence for Court. The ease of...
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Twitter Download Makes Account Production Easy and Risky for Clients
(Image: http://www.opencms.org/en/) The practice of family law has seen a shift in discovery in recent years with the increased use of social networking sites by clients. There are increasingly...
View Article4 THINGS NOT TO PUT IN YOUR ONLINE DATING PROFILE DURING A DIVORCE
While reading a press release by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers this afternoon, I realized individuals in the midst of a divorce regularly receive warnings about what is acceptable and...
View ArticlePost on Social Media, Go to Jail – How a Facebook Post Violated a Court Order
A recent criminal case addressed, in part, an issue we saw in the case of Elonis v. United States. The Elonis case went to the U.S. Supreme Court which ultimately reversed the criminal conviction of a...
View ArticleFacebook Antagonist Has Conviction Reinstated
We’ve reported on the United States v. Elonis in the past. This case involved a Northampton County man who made a series of threats on his Facebook page directed at his estranged wife, his employer,...
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SOCIAL MEDIA PRENUPS TRY TO ENSURE PRIVATE MOMENTS STAY PRIVATE
The Instruments of Embarrassment A recent story through ABC’s Good Morning America website highlighted the evolution of the prenuptial agreement in the social media age. Divorce lawyers are reporting...
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FACEBOOK IS A VIRTUAL ADDRESS…UNLESS IT’S NOT
To the best of my knowledge, using Facebook as a way to serve legal papers or proving notice of a lawsuit or other legal issue has not been addressed by Pennsylvania courts, but that doesn’t mean it...
View ArticleSERVING DIVORCE PAPERS VIA FACEBOOK
Facebook continues its march towards recognition as a stable and reliable mode of legal publication and evidentiary source with a recent decision by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper’s...
View ArticleCan Social Media Speech Violate Protection from Abuse Orders?
I recently wrote a column for The Legal Intelligencier about the Supreme Court’s decision in the Elonis v. United States to overturn Elonis’ criminal conviction and forty-four month prison term for...
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