Facebook Becoming Main Source Of Evidence For Divorce Lawyers

In the process of getting divorced? Just be careful what you say and who you friend on Facebook -- 2/3 of divorce lawyers consider Facebook the primary source for digging up compromising information.

In the process of getting un-hitched from your spouse? You might not want to flaunt your extramarital exploits on Facebook, since anything posted to your social network may be used against you in divorce court.

More than four-fifths of divorce attorneys surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) say the number of cases citing evidence from social networking sites has increased in the past five years.

Facebook, of course, is the most popular.

In fact, Facebook was cited by the AAML as a “primary source for compromising information” by 66 percent of respondents.

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