A woman in New York\u00a0 has been granted permission to file for divorce from her husband via social media site, Facebook.<\/p>\n
In a landmark ruling, reported by the New York Daily News<\/a>, the Manhattan Supreme Court ruled that a nurse, Ellanora Baidoo, can to serve her husband a divorce summons via a Facebook message.<\/p>\n The message will be repeated once a week for three consecutive weeks or until \u201cacknowledged\u201d by Baidoo\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n According to the report, husband, Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku, has no permanent address and has kept in touch with his wife by phone and Facebook only.<\/p>\n \u201cWe tried everything, including hiring a private detective \u2014 and nothing,\u201d said attorney, Andrew Spinnell.<\/p>\n Closer to home, in January, the South Gauteng High Court set a new legal precedent after it granted a South African Facebook<\/a> user an interdict preventing a friend from posting about his personal life on the social network after she defamed him on the site.<\/p>\n SA Facebook users to face criminal charges<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Legal trouble for social media comments in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n WhatsApp, BBM messages are legally binding in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMore on Facebook<\/h3>\n