Can Your Social Media Impact Your Child Custody?

Divorce today is an aspect that many individuals have to come to terms with in one fashion or another. However, another aspect that couples attempting to separate must eventually encounter is that of child custody, and the type of custody that will be given to each of them. Child custody is an aspect of a divorce that is discussed in the court of law, and ultimately awarded be a judge. Many aspects go into a judge’s decisions of how to actually award child custody. Yet, were you aware that your social media pages and profiles could easily help contribute to your loss of child custody?

Meeting The Pros With The Cons

Today, social media is an aspect of life that many individuals not only within the United States, but also all over the world actually participate in. Whether you are logged on to a computer, or on your cellphone there are many various, and unique forms of social media today that help you connect with others, share your thoughts and ideas, and even post your photos and videos. While social media seems to be an aspect of life that is helping build relationships up even more than within the past it is also taking away from an individual’s privacy.

What Social Media Could Do With Your Child Custody Case

In many recent child custody cases social media has been a tool, and a weapon that attorneys and former spouses use in order to get the custodial rights that they truly want. In one case, a woman used photos, comments, and statuses that she found on her former husband’s Facebook in court to show the judge that he had tendencies that showed that he potentially was unfaithful during their marriage. The judge later ruled in favor of the woman and considered her evidence to be authentic. In another case, a man decided to make a fake Facebook profile pertaining to his estranged wife, and post slanderous pictures, statuses, and inappropriate comments all throughout the profile. However, the profile was later found to have been falsified by the man and he inevitably received very little child custody rights.

When dealing with the matter of child custody make sure that your social media profiles, and pages reflect highly of you in multiple aspects.

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