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Does anyone here have experience of an abusive ex partner and civil court?

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APAKit · 17/09/2024 19:55

I don't have an abusive disgruntled ex partner as such but it would be a little similar. I am dealing with harassment from the breakdown of a friendship that happened 10 years ago. She has refused to leave me alone to live in peace. I am not in the UK so the law wasn't appropriate to stop her. She wasn't physically violent to me and so the police said it was a civil matter only the only civil action open to me was an injunction and I was quoted thousands. It's pscological abuse from her. Messages when I got a new number years of fake profiles. She's someone who would claimed all she wanted to do was fix things between us but her words were never that. It was all abuse and insults and mockery and demands and I would call it coercion control. I know the law is changing now. It is slow but it is changing. There is some good news on the horizon with a law for stalking and harassment and more civil orders made widely available coming into force soon. So all great news. I can hopefully get this to stop.

Does anyone have experience of going to court with a disgruntled person? Her current method is emails and a load of accusations and insults. Accusations like:
Beating animals
Beating children
Harassing her

I'm ignoring her by the way and I am not responding to her.

Loads more point making bringing up old arguements from our youth.

Some day I will have to provide this for legal professionals because she's showing no signs of stopping. She's obsessed with me and determined to sabotage everything I have until I give into her demands to fix our broken relationship and fix her feelings.

She doesn't even want to be friends with but she wants to control me.

I know coercion control is also against the law where I am but the law only made it available within intimate relationships and family law.

I know I am in a different place to the UK but I just wanted to know if anyone here has experience of a disgruntled ex and going to the court for a civil order?

OP posts:
TipsyJoker · 17/09/2024 20:00

Speak to a lawyer in your home country. Laws and legal systems are very different depending on where you are in the world. If you’re being harassed and abused then you need to see legal help. I realise that might be costly but see if you can have a free consultation with a lawyer first and take it from there.

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