Divorce battles go digital in the age of Facebook

Article here. If you're divorced or in the process of a divorce you should definitely lock down your Facebook and other social sites. Excerpt:

'Facebook and other social networks, such as Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket and MySpace, are becoming the latest legal tool in divorce and child-support battles.

Lawyers and private investigators collecting background on a client's ex-spouse are trolling the websites as a quick and easy way to catch someone doing something they don't want brought up in court -- snapshots of snuggling with a mistress, seminude photos with children nearby or drunken party pictures from a bar on a weekend a child is visiting.

"It's happening a lot," said lawyer Mark O'Mara.

Orlando lawyer Diana Tennis remembered a case in which her client was fighting for more time with his child. Tennis came across a Facebook picture of the opposing parent's new boyfriend proudly posing with a gun he'd just purchased.

"It can be used as leverage," she said, adding that's not the image the opposing parent wanted to portray before a judge.'