Tag: DIVORCE

Share Leon Walker recently discovered that his wife was having an affair, after he read some of her e-mails. Doing so, however, may just land him in prison. Last year, Walker reportedly hacked into his wife's Gmail account, using a laptop that the couple shared. He then found out that his wife, Clara, was having an affair with her second husband, who previously had been arrested for beating ...

To nobody's surprise, a recent study claimed that more couples are finding evidence of marital infidelity via Facebook. After all, if somebody's doing something, no matter how innocuous or unsightly, it's probably going to get posted on the social networking site. According to the AP, Lynn France, of Westlake, Ohio, learned this the hard way when she discovered that her husband John had a second ...

Share We knew that Facebook has torn apart many a marriage across the pond. But according to a recent survey, it's become just as problematic for couples here in the US, too. A survey of high-profile divorce lawyers throughout the country reveals that increasing numbers of quarrelsome couples are now using Facebook data as evidence of marital infidelity. As attorney Mary Cay Trace told ...

There's no question that the social networking boom has led to an increase in cheating spouses. But what might be surprising is that social networking is being more commonly used in the courtroom -- as evidence. According to the New York Post, a recent survey from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers shows that 81-percent of the lawyers questioned said they've used evidence from social ...

Besides helping "you connect and share with the people in your life," Facebook, apparently, helps you split up with them, too. That's at least what a recent report in The Telegraph suggests, citing the increasing number of divorce filings that implicate the social networking site. It seems that Facebook and its kin make cheating on spouses easier, more tempting, and, by the same token, more ...

The pre-Internet jilted lover was forced to wallow in lonely misery, hoping that friends or family members would listen on the other end of the phone while that spurned, unfortunate soul lamented what went wrong. Now, though, people can overcome their anguish by trumpeting the shortcomings and misdeeds of their exes online for the world to see. And, thankfully so, because break-up stories are ...

According to the Arab News, a Saudi man, who was busy in Iraq participating in "what he described as 'jihad'," found the time to send his wife a text message, alerting her that he had divorced her. This is the first documented divorce in Saudi Arabia executed by text message, according to a Reuters report at Yahoo! News. Under Islamic Sharia Law, a man need only say "I divorce you" three times to ...

People get tricked, scammed and embarrassed on Facebook all the time, so it takes a really funny/depressing story to get our attention. Taken from Banned In Hollywood, this hilarious case of adultery-gone-wrong has everything: revenge, travel, deception and, of course, soccer. Last November, 39-year-old Stuart Slann, resident of South Yorkshire, England and loyal Manchester United fan, was ...

What is up with the Brits? They can't stop having affairs on 'Second Life,' and now it seems a British husband announced his divorce on Facebook -- of course, this was before he got around to telling his wife he was leaving her. Considering last month's disturbing news about a Staffordshire, England man who murdered his wife after she changed her relationships status on Facebook to single, this ...

Another day, another marriage ruined by the Internet. Not surprisingly, the online virtual world 'Second Life,' in particula,r seems to be destroying the holy bond of matrimony every chance it gets. We can add the tale of UK couple John and Lisa Best to the list of reports of 'Second Life' infidelity leading to divorce. The mindbogglingly-careless John was laying in bed with his wife when he ...

Real-life married couple Amy and David Pollard have filed for divorce in England due to a dispute over Mr. Pollard's 'Second Life' character (called an "avatar") having virtual sex with the avatar of another woman, the Telegraph tell us. Mr. and Ms. Pollard -- who, themselves, first "met" on 'Second Life' -- had been married (in geek bliss we'd imagine) for three years until Ms. Pollard ...

It's safe to say most wives would be mad if they caught their husband having virtual sex in Second Life. When Amy Taylor caught her husband with another woman's avatar, the infidelity might as well have been real. Taylor and her husband, David Pollard, are divorcing after three years of geekily wedded bliss after Pollard, described as a "jobless 40-year-old," was caught doing the online ...

We've talked about it a million times, yet people still haven't learned that what you do online has real world consequences. Today's winner is a 43-year-old woman from Japan who's sitting in jail after murdering her online husband's avatar after he suddenly divorced her. The real crime she committed is hacking, as she illegally logged into his account and killed off his character. The woman and ...

Remember the YouTube divorce story from earlier this year? The sad and disturbing tale of theater tycoon Philip Smith and his wife, actress Tricia Walsh-Smith, who posted a series of scathing and demeaning YouTube videos when Philip asked for a divorce? Well, the court case is over, and Smith has "won" -- or at least as much as anyone can win when there's a pre-nuptial agreement involved. The ...