Will You Tube Lose Your Divorce Case

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If you want a favorable decision from a family law judge, don’t play around with fire (social media.)  Divorce is serious business, a family often times is fragmented, futures changed and lifestyles are at risk – divorce is between two people and it’s best to keep it that way. 

Although this divorce on You Tube is most definitely on the cutting edge of stupidity, it’s still a perfect example of emotions laced with temper tantrums where one party has definitely lost control.  http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/07/22/man-wins-divorce-from-angry-wife-in-youtube-video/

The social media should not be the venues used to hang out your dirty laundry – it’s a perfect way to lose a divorce case. Sharing intimate personal information about oneself or their spouse on Facebook or You Tube has lost many divorces in family court. Sure we have freedom of speech, but when used inappropriately on the social media your spouse and his or her attorney may use it against you in a court of law. 

There are a few big don’ts when contemplating or going thru divorce that all litigants should etch on their forehead. These could be considered “divorce don’t commandments” that are guaranteed to precipitate an unfavorable divorce decision from the judge.

1. Don’t let anger or uncontrolled emotions control your actions.
2. Don’t act like a loose goose in the courtroom with devious body language, profanity and inappropriate gestures.
3. Don’t go to court to start a dog fight with the judge – you will lose!
4. Don’t miss your court date, signatures on divorce forms or neglect filling out interrogatories – you will lose!
5. Don’t use the social media to vent about your spouse or share personal information – you will lose!

Keep emotions in tact, use good manners and be respectful of the judge, your soon to be ex and his or her attorney.  The family law judge doesn’t have the time to be a referee for your theatrics and won’t tolerate having his or her courtroom turned into a three ring circus. What you do and say in divorce court will influence the judge and may be the reason you receive an unfavorable decision.

Be careful what you do on the social side - it may and probably will be held against you.  

As Always,

Little Tboca