{"id":26587,"date":"2019-07-26T20:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/?p=26587"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:14:12","slug":"social-media-donts-during-the-divorce-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/social-media-donts-during-the-divorce-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Don’ts During the Divorce Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media makes it more important than ever to seek experienced legal counsel and avoid the risks of handling your divorce alone. With social media use in the U.S. projected to exceed 257 million by 2023, these platforms are a big aspect of life today. This inevitably makes them a big component in divorce.

How? Let\u2019s say you claim tardiness with child visitations is a work issue or that you can\u2019t afford a support request. Yet, your spouse\u2019s divorce attorney has a list of Facebook check-ins and lavish lifestyle moments showing otherwise. Social media can damage your divorce case.

Social Media makes building a case against you easier because anything you post or are associated with can be used as evidence against you. To prevent yourself from being in this situation, contact The Law Firm and Mediation Practice of Alla Roytberg<\/a> to learn how to manage your social media accounts during divorce.

Three Things Not to Do on Social Media During Divorce
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Here is a basic do not do list that you can follow while you await consultation with your attorney: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Don\u2019t Delete
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Social media pages are one of the first things others, including your spouse\u2019s divorce lawyer, look at in vetting you. Always consult your New York divorce attorney before deleting anything. Otherwise, you risk the court thinking you’ve tried to conceal information.

Instead of deleting your account, change all your passwords and then temporarily deactivate the account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Don\u2019t Post Negative Things<\/strong>

If you decide to keep using your social media accounts, don\u2019t post anything negative about yourself or others, including photographs, posts, and videos of:

\u2022 New purchases, travel, dating, and so forth.

\u2022 Threats, accusations, and degrading remarks toward others or yourself.

\u2022 Anything, profane, suggestive, immoral, illegal, pornographic, or self-incriminating.

\u2022 Legal information about your case.

\u2022 Relationship status changes.

\u2022 Dirty laundry about your life.

The same goes for the comments you make on other posts. If your spouse or others post something negative about you, don\u2019t engage. Take a screenshot of the posts for your divorce lawyer to review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 3. Don\u2019t Leave Your Settings Unprotected
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You\u2019ll want to go in and adjust all your social media settings.

\u2022 Don\u2019t let friends tag you.

\u2022 Don\u2019t accept unknown friend requests.

\u2022 Don\u2019t leave the check-in feature on.

\u2022 Don\u2019t allow applications that track your location.

\u2022 Don\u2019t leave any online accounts, such as Apple ID, linked; change all your passwords and set up new email addresses.

Divorce has long been a highly complicated and technical matter that\u2019s best handled under the guidance of legal representation or expertise of a mediator. Social media\u2019s almost unfettered accounting of our every action and thought significantly raises the stakes of going through divorce without an experienced and qualified lawyer or mediator. Contact the Law Firm and Mediation Practice of Alla Roytberg<\/a> to fully ensure that none of your social media activities negatively impact your divorce case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social media makes it more important than ever to seek experienced legal counsel and avoid the risks of handling your divorce alone. With social media use in the U.S. projected to exceed 257 million by 2023, these platforms are a big aspect of life today. This inevitably makes them a big component in divorce. How? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodlawfirm.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}