Can You Stop Your Ex From Posting Pictures of Your Children on Social Media?
Raising a child is an endless series of decisions, large and small. Where is the line between encouraging your child to explore the great outdoors and needlessly exposing your child to the risk of injury? No two parents agree about which apps it is appropriate for kids to download at what age and about how much junk food is too much. These disagreements can be a major source of stress for parents. Unfortunately, the problem only gets worse if the parents get divorced. In this case, it is easy to feel not only like your ex is making irresponsible parenting choices, but also that your ex is doing it just to upset you. It is frustrating when your kids come back from your ex’s house having done multiple things that you told them not to do. Social media is a minefield of conflict even for the most peaceful people. It is natural to be angry if your ex-spouse posts pictures of your children on social media, while you go out of your way to protect their online privacy. A Boca Raton child custody lawyer can help you resolve disagreements with your ex about online and offline parenting.
Except Where the Parenting Plan Indicates Otherwise, Parents Can Agree to Disagree
Every divorce case where the couple has minor children ends with the court issuing a parenting plan that allocates the days that each parent will spend with the children; it also has questions about which parent has the final decision regarding the children’s education, non-emergency healthcare, and extracurricular activities. It acts as a roadmap, so parents don’t have to argue about their plans every weekend and every holiday. Implicit in the co-parenting relationship is that you are the boss during your own co-parenting time. Plenty of children are allowed to eat more junk food and play more video games at one parent’s house than the other’s, and that is just the other parent’s tough luck.
As for posting pictures of children on social media, this is a fraught issue on which laws are evolving. On the one hand, each parent is the boss during his or her own parenting time, and parenting plans do not include questions about children’s Internet presence, at least not yet. On the other hand, it is difficult to agree to disagree about how much the public is allowed to know about your children. If you think that your ex is putting your children at risk by posting too much information about them on social media, such as posting Instagram stories about their location or personal details that make them vulnerable to identity theft, the best legal remedy available to you is to ask the court to issue an order determining which content your ex can and cannot post. The court will decide on a case-by-case basis what restrictions, if any, to place on your ex’s online content.
Contact Schwartz | White About Co-Parenting in the Digital Age
A South Florida family law attorney can help you resolve disputes about co-parenting the digital native generation. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
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