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Submitted by imagr8tma on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 7:53am

Does anyone know if facebook inbox messages can be used in court?

Wondering if someone is knowingly telling lies on a third party - or saying they will not follow a court order - or basically bashing and lying about the situation - and planning evil things - that are documented in facebook inbox messages - can these be used in court - say in like a custody case.

I know pictures can be used.... I am thinking wall posts can be used.... but how about inbox messages?

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Submitted by Pantera on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 7:57am

I'm not sure, but I am assuming they can be since my DH's lawyer wants us to print ours out and bring them to the next court date. BM said some pretty incriminating things about herself in the messages she sent to me on Facebook.

"If I turn into another, Dig me up from under what is covering the better part of me" -Incubus

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Submitted by Sita Tara on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 7:59am

I have no idea, but I actually hope not! Not that I don't wish you well in whatever you need them for, but would like to think things I don't post in public are mine. Well...unless I suppose you are plotting something illegal. Not sure about what line you have to cross for them to be presented in court. I do know that this site has come up legally though, if a SO/or ex figures out who we are on here. Which is why I'm not posting anything more of my life right now. Let me know what you find out!

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Submitted by mystiery on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 7:59am

I would assume they can be since the inbox messages are basically the same thing as an email.

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Submitted by stepmom008 on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 1:07pm

I was just going to say that & then I saw your post! I would think that if emails and texts are admissable, these should be too.

"There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control over - your mind and your mouth".

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Submitted by Pantera on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 8:38am

This is O/T but is a pretty funny Facebook story. BM and I are "friends" on Facebook (although we aren't really friends). I saw her in a pic in the News Feed, so I clicked on it and it's her and her friend bending over showing their bare butts to the person taking the picture. I click on the album and look through all of the pics and there were some pretty bad ones, but anyway, the album wasn't hers, and the name looked familiar so I clicked on the name and guess whose page it was on...HER LAWYERS, LOL!!! I guess she isn't "paying" him, lol.

"If I turn into another, Dig me up from under what is covering the better part of me" -Incubus

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Submitted by imagr8tma on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 1:01pm

LOl, Pantera.... just asking as our BM has been sending some incredulous things about DH and myself.... and we are thinking of submitting them to court to show her character and how she basically states she is not following the court order since in her eyes she has "sole" custody and DH has no right to make any decisions no matter what.

********She doesn't have to love me or even like me - it doesn't change a dang thing..... So get over it and move on BM!************

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Submitted by DISbelief on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 1:06pm

I would think so, so long as they were sent to YOU (or DH). I don't know for sure, but I do know that I have kept every single email EVER, printed out and filed away from BM. Ones where she admits to being emotionally unfit to raise a kid, that she smokes weed while he is asleep, ones about her boyfriends time in jail, cutting his finger off while he was drunk (with SS there), ummmmm.... ones threatening to keep SS from DH if he didn't "pay for him", when there was no CS in place. Ones of her threatening me physically... ALL of them. Even though she and I actually "get along" right now. I hold on to them just in case. I would take them to court and at least TRY to use them.

DISbelief~

~You have to BE crazy to UNDERSTAND crazy!~ Wink

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Submitted by Sita Tara on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 2:06pm

Oh YES. If the BM sends you something in writing/email etc it is admissible I believe. I thought you meant like them subpoenaing my private emails and FB stuff that I weren't exchanged with my H etc.

I sent a few texts when I was upset that I hope have been deleted. Basically they were telling him to get an apartment but also WHY he needed to (ie cheating) so I don't think he'd be wanting to admit THAT.

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Submitted by imagr8tma on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 1:12pm

DH has kept everything as well.... almost 7 years worth of things. I just didn't know if it could be used - I knew emails and texts could.... and Lord knows we have tons of them.

Thanks ladies.

********She doesn't have to love me or even like me - it doesn't change a dang thing..... So get over it and move on BM!************