What Can I Do If My Spouse Contacts My Employer During an Orlando, Florida Area Divorce?
If your spouse contacts your employer during an Orlando, Florida area divorce, what can you do?
First, what is your spouse saying about you? Is it something that could jeopardize your employment and your source of income? Or is it just unflattering comments about you that do not jeopardize your employment? There are remedies you may pursue to attempt to stop your spouse’s behavior. You can seek injunctive relief.
Steps You Can Take
First, you can send a cease-and-desist letter to your spouse. If that does not work, you can file an injunction against your spouse. You ask the court to tell your spouse to stop. You must show irreplaceable harm to obtain an injunction. Further, if your spouse has caused financial loss or loss of economic opportunity, you may be able to recover monetary damages under a civil court suit.
Financial Options
You may include the allegations that your spouse made to your employer and request injunctive relief in your petition for dissolution of marriage, or you may file a separate motion for injunctive relief, depending on the stage in your divorce litigation at which the spouse’s actions occur. Further, you may be able to file a lawsuit for monetary damages in a civil suit if a civil attorney determines you have a cause of action.
What You Need
You would spell out the times and dates that your spouse contacted your employer, what they said to your employer, and how the spouse’s comments are jeopardizing your employment. You must include evidence that proves that there was economic loss already due to your spouse. You must state that you need it to stop now to prevent further economic loss. You must spell out what your spouse did; and how it affected you and that if it does not stop, you will suffer irreparable harm.
If You Cannot Pay
Further, if your spouse is requesting alimony or attorney fees, yet hurts your ability to make a living, then you may be able to make an argument in court that, at the current time, you cannot pay alimony and attorney’s fees because you are involuntary underemployed due to your spouse’s harassing actions that caused your loss of income and/or loss of employment.
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: AnnMarieGildenLaw.com; and check me out on these other sites: Ann Marie Giordano Gilden on Facebook; Ann Marie (Giordano) Gilden on LinkedIn; and Ann Marie Giordano Gilden on AVVO and Lawyers.com.
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