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Writing A Caring Email or Text in an Orlando, Florida Area Marital and Family Law Case

Why would you want to write a caring email in an Orlando, Florida Area Marital and Family Law case? Why would you want to avoid the use of foul language? Why would you want to avoid threats and innuendos in your email? You want to do all the above because that email or text could end up as evidence against you in your Orlando, Florida Area Marital and Family Law case.  

The worst thing for you is for the other parent of the child or your spouse to introduce emails or texts into evidence where you were threatening, demanding, domineering, angry, unreasonable etc. The judge can use all those emails and texts against you. 

However, if your emails or texts are caring, thoughtful, and understanding than if they are introduced into evidence, you will be portrayed in a positive light. If you are polite, and your spouse is threatening, vulgar, rude, uncaring, and unsympathetic than those emails may be relevant to prove your case in court. 

Here are ways to make sure that your emails and texts are caring and polite:

1. Avoid profanity and vulgarity. 

2. Offer good wishes and pleasant salutations even if your opinion of your spouse is that your spouse is a jerk. 

3. Try to express gratitude if your spouse or the other parent did something nice, such as switched time sharing to accommodate your schedule. Being positive in emails will deescalate a situation that could be escalated and become nasty. Uncivil emails between parties that the parties insist their attorneys read are costly. You will be billed by your attorney for each email they must review. 

4. Accentuate the positive. If you start off with thanking or praising something the other party did well, then if you request something that they refrain from doing, it may be accepted in a more positive light. 

5. Don’t preach. Do not overload the other party with gripes and complaints. If you have something important to say, then say it politely without going over your complaints from the last two weeks, last two months, or last two years depending on how long your case has been going on in the court system. 

Remember collaborative cases are much less expensive than nasty contested cases where everything is litigated. 

If you have more questions regarding a Marital and Family Law matter, you may call Ann Marie Giordano Gilden at Ann Marie Giordano Gilden, P.A. at 407-732-7620 and set an initial consultation. You may also visit my website at: https//:www.AnnMarieGildenLaw.com

This article is for informational purposes only; and it does not form an attorney client privilege