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Good morning everyone!
This has nothing to do with custody or visitation, but I wasn't sure which forum would be appropriate, and I always value the advice I get on this forum, so I figured I'd ask here.
My wife is the plaintiff in a lawsuit against a former employer. The registered agent for the employer was served last week.
Since then, we've had (what we believe to be) a PI following her every move. My wife's attorney had a death in the family and has had to go to VA to attend to the details, so she isn't able to contact him right now.
Anyways, this guy is following her everywhere she goes. Which actually must be a pretty boring assignment for him. She stays home during the day. So he's only getting to follow her to and from picking up/dropping off the kids to school, and the occasional trip to Walmart.
She wasn't so much bothered by this when it first started happening, but she said that it is getting a little un-nerving. She has bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and it doesn't take much to get her anxiety up.
She doesn't have anything to hide, so she isn't worried about him "getting dirt on her." She is just starting to feel paranoid knowing that someone is always following her, and she's seen him taking pictures of her.
Over the weekend, she was in the front yard playing soccer with the kids when our dog took off to the woods in the lot across the street from our house. Our dog would never bite anyone, but I guess this guy doesn't know that. He came running out of the woods with camera in hand, jumped in his car and took off. We can only ASSume that he had been taking pictures of my wife AND the kids, which I am VERY unhappy about. My kids have nothing to do with this lawsuit. For all I know, he's also a pedophile and will be spanking his monkey to photos of my kids. Just sayin . . . . .
So anyways, is this legal behavior? If my wife calls the police, can they do anything? I mean I know that a PI's whole job is to basically "stalk" his subject, but I think generally, if the PI is good, his subject doesn't even know he's there.
If she calls the police, will they just say, "Sorry ma'am, he's just doing his job?"
Also, is the PI's "evidence" i.e. video recordings, photos, notes, etc. discoverable? Like I said, the only "evidence" he's going to have is that of a homemaker who takes care of the children, goes grocery shopping, etc. I don't see how any of this would benefit the defendant's case.
So anyways, any insight you knowledgable folks can offer would be great. My wife is really starting to be affected by this. At this time of year, my wife loves to open the blinds and windows and let the fresh spring air in, but because of this she's just basically holed herself up in the house all day with the blinds drawn because she feels like her privacy is being invaded.
Good morning everyone!
This has nothing to do with custody or visitation, but I wasn't sure which forum would be appropriate, and I always value the advice I get on this forum, so I figured I'd ask here.
My wife is the plaintiff in a lawsuit against a former employer. The registered agent for the employer was served last week.
Since then, we've had (what we believe to be) a PI following her every move. My wife's attorney had a death in the family and has had to go to VA to attend to the details, so she isn't able to contact him right now.
Anyways, this guy is following her everywhere she goes. Which actually must be a pretty boring assignment for him. She stays home during the day. So he's only getting to follow her to and from picking up/dropping off the kids to school, and the occasional trip to Walmart.
She wasn't so much bothered by this when it first started happening, but she said that it is getting a little un-nerving. She has bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and it doesn't take much to get her anxiety up.
She doesn't have anything to hide, so she isn't worried about him "getting dirt on her." She is just starting to feel paranoid knowing that someone is always following her, and she's seen him taking pictures of her.
Over the weekend, she was in the front yard playing soccer with the kids when our dog took off to the woods in the lot across the street from our house. Our dog would never bite anyone, but I guess this guy doesn't know that. He came running out of the woods with camera in hand, jumped in his car and took off. We can only ASSume that he had been taking pictures of my wife AND the kids, which I am VERY unhappy about. My kids have nothing to do with this lawsuit. For all I know, he's also a pedophile and will be spanking his monkey to photos of my kids. Just sayin . . . . .
So anyways, is this legal behavior? If my wife calls the police, can they do anything? I mean I know that a PI's whole job is to basically "stalk" his subject, but I think generally, if the PI is good, his subject doesn't even know he's there.
If she calls the police, will they just say, "Sorry ma'am, he's just doing his job?"
Also, is the PI's "evidence" i.e. video recordings, photos, notes, etc. discoverable? Like I said, the only "evidence" he's going to have is that of a homemaker who takes care of the children, goes grocery shopping, etc. I don't see how any of this would benefit the defendant's case.
So anyways, any insight you knowledgable folks can offer would be great. My wife is really starting to be affected by this. At this time of year, my wife loves to open the blinds and windows and let the fresh spring air in, but because of this she's just basically holed herself up in the house all day with the blinds drawn because she feels like her privacy is being invaded.