Are Courts Using Facebook to Serve Legal Papers?
Facebook isn’t just for friends and family anymore. Insurance companies have been using the social networking website to catch disability insurance cheats, and spouses are spying on their soon-to-be exes, looking for dirt to increase alimony, or win a child custody battle. Well, now there’s a new wrinkle: Courts are using Facebook to serve legal papers to announce, say, that you’re being sued. Or that your bank’s foreclosing on your house.