Will Your Wife Take Your Chat Logs to Court?
• Amorous Web, Cyber Sex
A sexist way to phrase it but seems to match the most commonplace American pattern. Certainly no reason to think it might not be the husband taking his wife's instant messager archives into divorce court.
Many people like to think of their cyber sex life as immaterial to their actual relationship. Silly. Infidelity is more a matter of the mind than insertions. Even sometimes in the eyes of the law.
Erotic talk with a virtual partner in chatrooms on the web can constitute proof of "grossly insulting behaviour" and can be used as evidence in a divorce case, Belgium's top judges have ruled.
Belgian legal paper Juristenkrant cites a ruling by the Brussels Appeals Court, which recently accepted printouts of a erotic chat as evidence in an adultery trial. Although the printouts were inadequate to prove a partner had cheated on his or her spouse, judges found that they could constitute grounds for divorce, because the behavior was clearly 'unworthy' ...
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Posted by: Jessica | October 3, 2005 10:49 AM