UK Wedding News
03/04/2013
A new survey has found Facebook is cited as a reason for divorce in a fifth of cases.
JCP Solicitors, who are based in Swansea, also said that one in 10 couples blamed the popular social networking site as the main cause of their reason to divorce.
Most cases involve married people who reacquaint themselves with old flames they have not seen for years, while others concern husbands or wives who discover the infidelity of their other half by checking his or hers Facebook activity.
A few reasons cited included inappropriate messages or photographs sent to members of the opposite sex, posting nasty comments about a spouse, and friends reporting a spouse's online behaviour.
Christine Rawsthorne, a family solicitor at JCP Solicitors, said: "It used to be the telltale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the giveaway texts which spelled the death knell for many marriages. Now it's Facebook.
"Ten years ago, it was probably unheard of for a divorce petition to refer to one spouse finding out about the others infidelity on a social networking site. However, when you consider that Facebook has around 750,000 adult users in Wales alone, some might say it's hardly surprising that some of those people will be using it to contact an old flame.
"The perceived safety of sitting at a computer screen to contact someone you would otherwise have left well alone is leading to many petitions for divorce being filed with county courts throughout Wales."
Ms Rawsthorne added that it was becoming more and more frequent in divorce petitions to see people's Facebook postings being printed off and referred to the court in cases concerning children.
(JP/CD)
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Facebook Blamed For '1 in 5' Welsh Divorces
A new survey has found Facebook is cited as a reason for divorce in a fifth of cases.
JCP Solicitors, who are based in Swansea, also said that one in 10 couples blamed the popular social networking site as the main cause of their reason to divorce.
Most cases involve married people who reacquaint themselves with old flames they have not seen for years, while others concern husbands or wives who discover the infidelity of their other half by checking his or hers Facebook activity.
A few reasons cited included inappropriate messages or photographs sent to members of the opposite sex, posting nasty comments about a spouse, and friends reporting a spouse's online behaviour.
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Christine Rawsthorne, a family solicitor at JCP Solicitors, said: "It used to be the telltale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the giveaway texts which spelled the death knell for many marriages. Now it's Facebook.
"Ten years ago, it was probably unheard of for a divorce petition to refer to one spouse finding out about the others infidelity on a social networking site. However, when you consider that Facebook has around 750,000 adult users in Wales alone, some might say it's hardly surprising that some of those people will be using it to contact an old flame.
"The perceived safety of sitting at a computer screen to contact someone you would otherwise have left well alone is leading to many petitions for divorce being filed with county courts throughout Wales."
Ms Rawsthorne added that it was becoming more and more frequent in divorce petitions to see people's Facebook postings being printed off and referred to the court in cases concerning children.
(JP/CD)
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