{"id":17118,"date":"2017-10-23T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:16:07","slug":"facebook-and-linkedin-blamed-for-a-rise-in-divorce-cases-as-couples-conduct-affairs-with-as-many-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/facebook-and-linkedin-blamed-for-a-rise-in-divorce-cases-as-couples-conduct-affairs-with-as-many-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and LinkedIn blamed for a rise in divorce cases as couples conduct affairs with as many as &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Technology is enabling more husbands and wives to conduct multiple affairs online, divorce lawyers have revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Firms have noticed a rise in such infidelities &#8211; with some spouses conducting up to five affairs at a time, some almost entirely online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Methods of communication range from text messaging and dating apps to social networks such as LinkedIn and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/facebook\/index.html\" id=\"mol-017441d0-b737-11e7-8c50-b33063772f6e\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-74d2b9d91ffc3d1a\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/10\/22\/15\/4592BFFA00000578-0-image-a-113_1508681554634.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Divorce lawyers have seen a rise in cases involving partners having multiple affairs - many of which are conducted almost entirely online\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/div>\n<p>    <noscript><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-74d2b9d91ffc3d1a\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/10\/22\/15\/4592BFFA00000578-0-image-a-113_1508681554634.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Divorce lawyers have seen a rise in cases involving partners having multiple affairs - many of which are conducted almost entirely online\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Divorce lawyers have seen a rise in cases involving partners having multiple affairs &#8211; many of which are conducted almost entirely online<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Hall Brown Family Law saw such cases rise from less than 50 to 65 over a five-year period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Abigail Lowther, an associate solicitor at the firm told the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/21\/divorce-following-multiple-affairs-rise-flirty-texts-catch-adulterers\/\">Sunday Telegraph<\/a> her clients complained that technology was &#8216;putting temptation at their partners&#8217; fingertips&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While Joanne Edwards, a partner at Forsters, also noted the correlation between technology and infidelity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Technology puts people within messaging distance of old or new flames and means that a spouse can be cheating when sitting in the same room with their husband and wife,&#8217; she told the paper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5ec6fc41ccc9c03d\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/10\/22\/15\/4592C01000000578-0-image-a-112_1508681541895.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Methods of communication range from dating apps to social media media accounts and text messages\u00a0\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/div>\n<p>    <noscript><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5ec6fc41ccc9c03d\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/10\/22\/15\/4592C01000000578-0-image-a-112_1508681541895.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Methods of communication range from dating apps to social media media accounts and text messages\u00a0\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Methods of communication range from dating apps to social media media accounts and text messages\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While technology may make having an affair easier, it also makes it easier to uncover infidelity, according to Joanna Pratt, partner at Thomson Snell &amp; Passmore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Technology has also made it easier for illicit relationships to be uncovered,&#8217; she told the paper. &#8216;People forget to close or properly delete emails, text messages are sent or received but not deleted, and photographs can appear on Facebook which although they might appear on a totally unconnected person&#8217;s Facebook page, disclose to the whole world the nature of relationships,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Earlier this year, it was revealed that\u00a0Tunbridge Wells was home to the most adulterers in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to the Infidelity Index, 1,146 of its residents are having an affair &#8211; a whole 2.20 per cent of its population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Index, compiled by Illicit Encounters &#8211; the UK&#8217;s leading dating site for adulterers &#8211; mapped the location data of its 1.1 million members against each town&#8217;s adult population to find the most adulterous towns, cities, and London boroughs in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Affluent Guildford retained second place with 1,303 adulterers &#8211; 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Wrexham came in third with 1,027 adulterers &#8211; 1.89 percent of the town&#8217;s residents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5005921\/Rise-couples-divorcing-conducting-affairs-online.html\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/contact-us\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer-150x50.png 150w, https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is enabling more husbands and wives to conduct multiple affairs online, divorce lawyers have revealed. 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