January 12, 2006
SMS as evidence in divorce court
According to IOL, text messaging are ending up in court as evidence of infidelity in about a third of divorce cases in Poland.
"More and more often people are attaching text messages found on their spouse's mobile telephones to their divorce papers," Judge Maria Taront told the Wednesday edition of Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
"Messages like: 'You gave me so much pleasure yesterday', 'I'm waiting for the next night', 'Darling, the alarm is off. she says, adding that faced with such strong evidence cheaters have little possibility to deny infidelity.
"This is usually enough to find them responsible for the marriage falling apart," she says.
... If the court is uncertain whether a racy text message is just a joke, judges request billing documents which can reveal telling patterns and the intensity of SMS contact.
Related:
-- Texting sparks affairs (UK)
-- Cell phones exposing more cheating spouses (Singapore)
-- Unfaithful Italians betrayed by text messaging
-- Text Messaging causes MP divorce in South Africa
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