Social Media Is the Star Witness in Many Divorces

by Liz Colville

Eighty percent of divorce lawyers have “reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating,” according to a study by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. While this isn’t that hard to believe, how is the evidence of cheating being found? Are peeps just logging into their partners’ social media accounts as breezily as they might pick up their partners’ phones and scroll through them? Where are our boundaries? Do we get to not have any boundaries if our prying leads to something incriminating?