Indiana Filer
Senior Member
What is the name of your state? Indiana
My brother-in-law's step-daughter has a lot of problems. She's been arrested several times for public intoxication, getting pepper-sprayed in the process, since she resists arrest. She's broken into someone's house, and got arrested for that. She's just nuts.
Even though she was 25 before she ever met me, she blames me for the fact that her life is a mess and has always been a mess. For example, it's my fault that she flunked out of her first year of college at 19. (I guess she's jealous of my degrees.) Her mother is dead, from cancer, and that's my fault too, since I guess I made her mother get cancer from smoking.
Every so often, she decides that I need to be told how horrible I am for causing all these problems in her life, and she sends me hateful e-mails calling me all sorts of vulgar names and threatening to beat me up. I just delete them, but I was wondering if any future e-mails could be used to get a protective order to make her stop this nonsense. I've changed my e-mail address a couple times, but she got into her half-sister's computer and copied by e-mail address from my niece's computer. She never calls to tell me these things, so I'm guessing she thinks that e-mail can't be used in a harassment case.
BTW, I don't think she knows where we live, since (hopefully) my nieces and BIL would never give that information out.
So, would e-mail threats be enough to get a protective order?
My brother-in-law's step-daughter has a lot of problems. She's been arrested several times for public intoxication, getting pepper-sprayed in the process, since she resists arrest. She's broken into someone's house, and got arrested for that. She's just nuts.
Even though she was 25 before she ever met me, she blames me for the fact that her life is a mess and has always been a mess. For example, it's my fault that she flunked out of her first year of college at 19. (I guess she's jealous of my degrees.) Her mother is dead, from cancer, and that's my fault too, since I guess I made her mother get cancer from smoking.
Every so often, she decides that I need to be told how horrible I am for causing all these problems in her life, and she sends me hateful e-mails calling me all sorts of vulgar names and threatening to beat me up. I just delete them, but I was wondering if any future e-mails could be used to get a protective order to make her stop this nonsense. I've changed my e-mail address a couple times, but she got into her half-sister's computer and copied by e-mail address from my niece's computer. She never calls to tell me these things, so I'm guessing she thinks that e-mail can't be used in a harassment case.
BTW, I don't think she knows where we live, since (hopefully) my nieces and BIL would never give that information out.
So, would e-mail threats be enough to get a protective order?