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I currently have a court order in place that i arranged for my 3 children. But the ex will not stop bombarding me with emails and getting in contact. Emails are very very very long and are ranting if she doesn't like something or being critical. There is no need for us to be in contact unless there is an emergency but she just doesn't stop what can i do
Hi there
There's not a great deal you can do...perhaps if you write her a letter (or have asolicitor send one) asking for her to stop any communication unless it is directly involving your children, and state that if it doesn't stop you will apply to the court for an injunction for harassment. This is likely to make things even worse between you though.
If you ask someone to stop contacting you in this way and they persist, that is harassment. You could as Mojo suggests, send a solicitors letter or report it to the police on 101, but I agree, it could inflame things.
What about blocking her number on your phone or having a separate number, and having a dedicated email address for matters relating to the children? I know these are methods that some of our other members have tried.
Hi There,
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As already said what she is doing is harrasment and it's classed as domestic harrasment, the police would issue a warning if you reported it, and if she continued they are able to press charges. That said I agree 100% that if you take this route then things will get worse rather than better, she may stop harrasing, but chances are she will hit out in other ways possibly contact.
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The idea that Yoda has suggested is a good on, as although she won't stop the harrasment, you can choose when you read it, if you let her know your new email address, tell her something like your old account was hacked so you've closed it and she needs to use the new one, and then block her on the old one by marking her emails as spam.
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GTTS
You can probably set up a rule on your email account to simply bounce emails back with a message - after getting two or three of these, she may either stop bothering, or find a different way to contact you, in which case you deal with that when it happens.
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