Yet another hazard of modern divorce: the judge may forbid you to use, alter or even turn on your personal computer — work files and all — lest you erase or overwrite some email or spreadsheet that your hubby might want to hold against you. “Stamford Superior Court Judge Kevin Tierney recently took the highly unusual step of ordering Mary Ranta to stop using her laptop altogether and immediately turn it over to the court clerk’s office. … Tierney said his goal was to preserve electronic data for discovery.” (Thomas B. Scheffey, “Lockdown Ordered for Laptop”, Connecticut Law Tribune, Mar. 16).
Your laptop? Hand it over
Yet another hazard of modern divorce: the judge may forbid you to use, alter or even turn on your personal computer — work files and all — lest you erase or overwrite some email or spreadsheet that your hubby might want to hold against you. “Stamford Superior Court Judge Kevin Tierney recently took the highly […]
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Digital dumpster diving for fun and profit.
Overlawyered notes a divorce case where a husband has gotten an order barring his wife from even turning on her laptop. First, I don’t understand why the court doesn’t just order that a copy of the contents of the hard drive in question be …