Expert Family Lawyers Say Applications To Courts For Permission To Use Facebook Messaging Is Becoming More Common

Specialist family and divorce lawyers at Irwin Mitchell say that filing divorce papers via social media is becoming more common in the UK as it emerged a New York judge has granted permission for a an American woman to file for divorce via a Facebook message to her husband.

Expert lawyers at Irwin Mitchell say that as well as affairs evidenced over social media commonly being named as one of the reason for divorce, serving divorce papers via social media is now also becoming more common in the UK in situations where there are no other means of contacting people – particularly in international divorces.

In the New York case the Manhattan Supreme Court justice Matthew Cooper has allowed a divorce summons to be submitted via a private Facebook message. It will be repeated once a week for three consecutive weeks or until acknowledged by the recipient.
 
David Lister, a specialist family and divorce lawyer at Irwin Mitchell said:

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