Threatened by father-in-law

[jbw96]

What is the name of your state? PA

My wife and I recently had a typical married fight and following the fight she called her mother in tears. Her father, who is an attorney, apparently overhead part of the discussion and responded by sending me a threatening email. His email stated that I was not to ever raise my voice to his daughter again, and that was not a request and not negotiable. It also stated that if I frightened his daughter or his grandaughters (we have two little girls), there would be severe legal consequences.

I feel extremely threatened by this and am very emotionally distraught over it. My wife has previously told me that her father got her ex-husband kicked out of the Air Force and fired from a previous job, and one of his criminal defense clients offered to have her ex "taken care of" for $5000.

Do I have any basis for any action against him? Libel suit, restraining order? I genuinely fear for what he might try to do and primarily I would like to have something on record in case he does attempt to do anything. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[seniorjudge]

What is the name of your state? PA

My wife and I recently had a typical married fight and following the fight she called her mother in tears. Her father, who is an attorney, apparently overhead part of the discussion and responded by sending me a threatening email. His email stated that I was not to ever raise my voice to his daughter again, and that was not a request and not negotiable. It also stated that if I frightened his daughter or his grandaughters (we have two little girls), there would be severe legal consequences.

I feel extremely threatened by this and am very emotionally distraught over it. My wife has previously told me that her father got her ex-husband kicked out of the Air Force and fired from a previous job, and one of his criminal defense clients offered to have her ex "taken care of" for $5000.

Do I have any basis for any action against him? Libel suit, restraining order? I genuinely fear for what he might try to do and primarily I would like to have something on record in case he does attempt to do anything. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Offering legal consequences for being rude is not against the law.

 

[fairisfair]

What is the name of your state? PA

My wife and I recently had a typical married fight and following the fight she called her mother in tears. Her father, who is an attorney, apparently overhead part of the discussion and responded by sending me a threatening email. His email stated that I was not to ever raise my voice to his daughter again, and that was not a request and not negotiable. It also stated that if I frightened his daughter or his grandaughters (we have two little girls), there would be severe legal consequences.

I feel extremely threatened by this and am very emotionally distraught over it. My wife has previously told me that her father got her ex-husband kicked out of the Air Force and fired from a previous job, and one of his criminal defense clients offered to have her ex "taken care of" for $5000.

Do I have any basis for any action against him? Libel suit, restraining order? I genuinely fear for what he might try to do and primarily I would like to have something on record in case he does attempt to do anything. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

You are kidding right? Look into the future**************......, you have two daughters**************... I hope you could restrain yourself as well as FIL did. And if your wife told you all these horror stories before, why are you only scared NOW?

 

[jbw96]

Offering legal consequences for being rude is not against the law.

I would wonder what differentiates threats that are and are not legal, but I will note that I'm not interested in suing him, and again was simply wondering if there was anything I could get on record in case he acts against me in the future. If nothing else, I would hope I have a legal right to keep him off of my property. (And for the record, both my wife and mother-in-law are completely on my side with this.)

 

[jbw96]

You are kidding right? Look into the future**************......, you have two daughters**************... I hope you could restrain yourself as well as FIL did. And if your wife told you all these horror stories before, why are you only scared NOW?

Yes, I do have 2 daughters, and in the future I would never think to treat their husbands this way, attack them, and threaten them simply because they had an argument. I don't think it's unreasonable, given my father-in-law's history of lack of restraint, to want a record of his threats in case he acts against me in the future. I had never been concerned about it before because he had never attacked or threatened me before. It's that simple.

 

[fairisfair]

Yes, I do have 2 daughters, and in the future I would never think to treat their husbands this way, attack them, and threaten them simply because they had an argument. I don't think it's unreasonable, given my father-in-law's history of lack of restraint, to want a record of his threats in case he acts against me in the future. I had never been concerned about it before because he had never attacked or threatened me before. It's that simple.

Oh, he ATTACKED you, well, you didn't say that. (he didn't really, did he?)

and he THREATENED you with "severe legal consequences".

hmmmmm. I still am just not getting it.

 

[BelizeBreeze]

What is the name of your state? PA

My wife and I recently had a typical married fight and following the fight she called her mother in tears. Her father, who is an attorney, apparently overhead part of the discussion and responded by sending me a threatening email. His email stated that I was not to ever raise my voice to his daughter again, and that was not a request and not negotiable. It also stated that if I frightened his daughter or his grandaughters (we have two little girls), there would be severe legal consequences.

I feel extremely threatened by this and am very emotionally distraught over it. My wife has previously told me that her father got her ex-husband kicked out of the Air Force and fired from a previous job, and one of his criminal defense clients offered to have her ex "taken care of" for $5000.

Do I have any basis for any action against him? Libel suit, restraining order? I genuinely fear for what he might try to do and primarily I would like to have something on record in case he does attempt to do anything. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Tell him to kiss your behind and stop interferring in your marriage or you'll post his e-mail, which you now own, on every lamp post in his neighborhood and see how his clients react.

Then go apologize to your wife. Yelling is juvenille and childish.