Plano Divorce Lawyers Blog

Social networking sites can be a divorce lawyer's best friend or worst enemy, depending on who is doing the posting and who the custody lawyer represents. Our Collin County family lawyers are very familiar with the difficulties presented by postings on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. An example of such a situation is a case recently handled by Easley & Marquis.

The parents were divorcing and the mother claimed that the father drank too much so he should not have unsupervised access to his child. The father claimed that he never drank any more and that the child would be safe with him. Just before the temporary orders hearing, a friend of the father posted a picture on her Facebook page of the father with several other individuals at a bar, holding a beer, bragging about how he could handle his liquor! Easley & Marquis represented the mother in this case and used the Facebook post to catch the father in a lie.

Another instance, where Easley & Marquis represented a Plano father who was seeking custody of his son, occurred when the father learned of the mother's affair because she posted pictures of herself with her "friend" on her own blog site. She thought the post was private but one of her friends showed it to the father. He got custody of the child. The moral of the story is not that, if you are getting divorced or you are already divorced, don't run around and don't drink!! The moral is DON'T POST IT ON FACEBOOK or any other social networking site.

According to the NY Daily News in their article titled, Marriage over? Divorce Lawyer Says Facebook Is Used in 90 Percent of Cases, Facebook pages and postings on other social networking sites are used as evidence in approximately 90% of divorce cases--making the lawyers job much easier--or more difficult, depending on the side the attorney represents.