Being Harrassed... legal rights?
By VeggieMoon
@VeggieMoon (18)
United States
May 24, 2009 3:06pm CST
There's a former friend of mine who turned out being a liar and a thief. I was naturally upset, so I confronted her about it through texting, which is the only way I was able to contact her at the time. She began to say hurtful things about me and my boyfriend. She wouldn't stop texting, so I told her to shut up or I'd beat the crap out of her. At that point her boyfriend threatened me, my boyfriend and his brother threatened him, and it became a huge mess.
She's still harrassing me with texting every time I see her. I've told her to stop. Do I have any legal rights against her now, considering I made the one mistake of threatening her?
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2 responses
@olydove (1209)
• United States
25 May 09
The only thing you could possibly do is go try to get a no contact order against her. That in turn would mean that you can in no way contact her either.
You'd have to go to your local district court and apply for a no contact order, see the judge BE HONEST about her involvement as well as your part in the situation and state that you truly believe it is in both her best interest as well as yours to have a no contact order in effect.
Then if the judge grants your petition for a no contact order, once she has been served with it if she tries to contact you in any way, texting, calls, in person, or even have someone else contact you for her, she will be violation of the order.
Just remember the same rules would apply to you as well.
@VeggieMoon (18)
• United States
25 May 09
Thank you... naturally if I had that kind of order against her I'd be perfectly happy to leave her be. I'm just tired of being harrassed every day.
@rina308 (83)
• Philippines
8 Dec 09
If you want to do any legal action, be smart about it. Keep her texts so you have evidence.
