Wife Sees Husband's 2nd Wedding On Facebook

rockin'robin · 08-05-2010, 01:55 PM

Woman Began Searching Facebook For Possible Affair

CLEVELAND -- Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.

Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.

"I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth," says France, an occupational therapist from Westlake, a Cleveland suburb. "There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding."

Affairs were once shadowy matters, illicit encounters whispered about and often difficult to prove. But in the age of Facebook and Twitter and lightning-fast communication, the notion of privacy is fast becoming obsolete. From flirtatious text messages to incriminating e-mails, marital indiscretions are much easier to track - especially if potentially damaging photographic evidence is posted online.

"All of these things are just a trail of cyber breadcrumbs that are easily tracked by good divorce lawyers," says Parry Aftab, an expert on Internet safety and privacy laws.

France, 41, was not completely blindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009. That fall, she had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple's newborn son came home from the hospital. Once, she found his passport at home when he was supposed to be in China for business.

In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple's computer screen.

"So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure," France says. "He was there with this girlfriend. I said, 'Hey, I'm his wife. We've got a baby.'"

The woman told France that she was engaged to France's husband.

"Sure enough, they were registered for a wedding at Target," France says.

A girlfriend recommended checking the woman's Facebook page, which was then open to the public, France says, but has since become private. There, France found evidence of an unfolding relationship that she still couldn't wrap her head around. Overwhelmed with two young children, she confronted her husband. She says he told her he wouldn't actually go through with the wedding.

It wasn't until she saw the wedding photos that she finally began divorce proceedings.

"People who engage in these sorts of behaviors now have the option of trying to keep things private or turning it into a spectacle and becoming their own reality show," says lawyer Andrew Zashin, a child custody expert who is representing Lynn France. "In this case, it seems, the spouse may have crossed the line and gotten married while he was still married."

Aftab, a lawyer who runs the online protection site WiredSafety.org, says the lesson to be learned from the Frances' case is that no form of communication is sacred anymore.

"It's like trying to catch a river in your hand," she says. "It will leak out eventually."

But Aftab doesn't recommend snooping around online. That can backfire in court if used inappropriately - such as when spouses log onto each other's Facebook pages without permission. If your spouse isn't trustworthy, she says, get a divorce and save yourself the trouble.

Lynn's husband, John France, does not deny that he has remarried. Rather, he simply is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place.

His attorney, Gary Williams, issued a statement Tuesday saying his client is asking a family law court to declare that his marriage to Lynn was "void since its inception."

"While it appears that John and Lynda France were both under the impression, once upon a time, that they were married, the fact of the matter is that their marriage was never legally proper," Williams wrote, "and, therefore, it does not actually exist."

Lynn and John France were married in July 2005 in a seaside wedding on Italy's Amalfi Coast, having organized the event through Regency San Marino, which coordinates weddings for couples looking to get hitched in Italy. On the company's website, Lynn is still the first radiant bride whose portrait appears in a gauzy veil, the brilliant blue sea behind her.

If that wedding was a fraud, it was news to Lynn.

"If that were true, then he's lied to the IRS," Zashin says. "He's lied to insurance companies. Banks."

In June 2009, against the advice of her attorneys, Lynn France dropped divorce proceedings when her husband came home and persuaded her to reconcile.

"I just wanted to believe the good when he came to me and said, 'Let's reconcile, I love you,'" she says. "You want to give somebody a second chance."

But three months ago, Lynn says she was cleaning the sink when her husband took the couple's 2-year-old son out of her arms and said he was going to give him some milk. Minutes later, she heard the car running.

"He threw them in, no car seats, no nothing, and took off," she says.

She hasn't seen her sons since. John France had taken them to Tampa, Fla., where he currently lives with his new wife and, according to his attorney, is seeking custody of their children.

Lynn France called 911, but as in most parental custody disputes, little could be done. She is in contact with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and has a team of attorneys preparing for a court fight. Authorities have told her not to attempt to take back the children forcibly.

For Lynn, the only glimpse of her children now comes, ironically, from the same Facebook page where she found those fairy-tale wedding photos.

Until the day she can see her children again, Lynn France says she continues to text her husband, pleading with him to bring the children back to Ohio.

"The only way I've been able to see my children is on her Facebook page," she says. "It's stranger than fiction to watch this woman living my life."

Wife Sees Husband's 2nd Wedding On Facebook - Technology News Story - WJXT Jacksonville

PowerON · 08-05-2010, 04:24 PM

What? He said his marriage license is void? If so, he failed to pay IRS tax. If it's real marriage license being recognzation from Italy to here in US. That's confuse and too stupid to plan to marry someone else.

Pity, he shouldn't doing on FB with girl you wish to cheating.

***naisho*** · 08-05-2010, 04:39 PM

Woman discovers via Facebook her husband is married to someone else | Mail Online

Writes it differently.. The article rockin' posted seems to be in support of the soon to be divorced woman. This one seems to be otherwise. Who to believe?

Pics!

Ex-wife Lynn

A wife who suspected her husband was having an affair found he was actually married to another woman through a simple Facebook search.

Lynn France found an array of wedding pictures after typing in the name of the woman she believed her husband, John, was seeing.

'I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth,' said France, an occupational therapist from, Cleveland, Ohio.

The pair had been married at Disney World, no less, with France’s husband dressed as Prince Charming, and his new bride as Sleeping Beauty.

'There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding.'

France, 41, was not completely blindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009.

That autumn, she had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple's newborn son came home from the hospital.

Once, she found his passport at home when he was supposed to be in China for business.

In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple's computer screen.

'So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure,' France said.

'He was there with this girlfriend. I said, “Hey, I'm his wife. We've got a baby”.’

The woman told her that she was engaged to France's husband.

A girlfriend recommended checking the woman's Facebook page, where France found further evidence of the relationship and confronted her husband once more.

She claims he promised he would not go through with the wedding – but it wasn’t until she saw that he had, that she finally began divorce proceedings.

Meanwhile, France’s husband John, does not deny that he has remarried. Rather, he simply is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place.

His attorney, Gary Williams, issued a statement this week saying his client is asking a family law court to declare that his marriage to Lynn was 'void since its inception.'

'While it appears that John and Lynda France were both under the impression, once upon a time, that they were married, the fact of the matter is that their marriage was never legally proper,' Williams wrote, 'and, therefore, it does not actually exist.'

The couple tied the knot in a seaside wedding in July 2005 in Italy and signed a marriage license, but it was never filed, Williams said.

In June 2009, France dropped divorce proceedings when her husband came home and persuaded her to reconcile.

'I just wanted to believe the good when he came to me and said, “Let's reconcile, I love you,'' she said. 'You want to give somebody a second chance.'

But three months ago, France claims her husband took her children and left her without an explanation.

She has not seen her sons since, who are now living with their father and his new wife in Florida.

According to his lawyers, he is seeking custody of the children and ironically for France, the only glimpses of her sons now come from the Facebook page where she found his new wedding pictures.

PowerON · 08-05-2010, 04:47 PM

that man look like older as 40s while lady look much as middle 20s. Hmm...

**sallylou** · 08-05-2010, 08:23 PM

If this guy filed taxes jointly married, then he can't argue that he's not married now. It's usually really hard to declare a marriage void. This guy's a bigamist and an asshole. I feel sorry for the wife but good riddance. The second woman's not getting a prize.

**shel90** · 08-05-2010, 09:41 PM

The guy is a dickhead!

DDU · 08-05-2010, 10:15 PM

I think both women are idiots. 1st wife for taking him bck the 2nd wife for staying married to the obviously 2 timer. What are the chances they guy will pull the same stunt when his little head finds fresh meat?

yizuman · 08-06-2010, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shel90

The guy is a dickhead!

Yep,

he sure is!

Yiz

sara1981 · 08-06-2010, 01:03 AM

Wife Learns of Husband's 2nd Wedding on Facebook
Wife Learns of Husband's 2nd Wedding on Facebook - CBS News

Quote:

Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.

Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.

"I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth," says France, an occupational therapist from Westlake, a Cleveland suburb. "There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding."

Affairs were once shadowy matters, illicit encounters whispered about and often difficult to prove. But in the age of Facebook and Twitter and lightning-fast communication, the notion of privacy is fast becoming obsolete. From flirtatious text messages to incriminating e-mails, marital indiscretions are much easier to track - especially if potentially damaging photographic evidence is posted online.

"All of these things are just a trail of cyber breadcrumbs that are easily tracked by good divorce lawyers," says Parry Aftab, an expert on Internet safety and privacy laws.

France, 41, was not completely blindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009. That fall, she had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple's newborn son came home from the hospital. Once, she found his passport at home when he was supposed to be in China for business.

In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple's computer screen.

"So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure," France says. "He was there with this girlfriend. I said, `Hey, I'm his wife. We've got a baby."'

The woman told France that she was engaged to France's husband.

"Sure enough, they were registered for a wedding at Target," France says.

A girlfriend recommended checking the woman's Facebook page, which was then open to the public, France says, but has since become private. There, France found evidence of an unfolding relationship that she still couldn't wrap her head around. Overwhelmed with two young children, she confronted her husband. She says he told her he wouldn't actually go through with the wedding.

It wasn't until she saw the wedding photos that she finally began divorce proceedings.

"People who engage in these sorts of behaviors now have the option of trying to keep things private or turning it into a spectacle and becoming their own reality show," says lawyer Andrew Zashin, a child custody expert who is representing Lynn France. "In this case, it seems, the spouse may have crossed the line and gotten married while he was still married."

Aftab, a lawyer who runs the online protection site WiredSafety.org, says the lesson to be learned from the Frances' case is that no form of communication is sacred anymore.

"It's like trying to catch a river in your hand," she says. "It will leak out eventually."

But Aftab doesn't recommend snooping around online. That can backfire in court if used inappropriately - such as when spouses log onto each other's Facebook pages without permission. If your spouse isn't trustworthy, she says, get a divorce and save yourself the trouble.

Lynn's husband, John France, does not deny that he has remarried. Rather, he simply is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place.

His attorney, Gary Williams, issued a statement Tuesday saying his client is asking a family law court to declare that his marriage to Lynn was "void since its inception."

"While it appears that John and Lynda France were both under the impression, once upon a time, that they were married, the fact of the matter is that their marriage was never legally proper," Williams wrote, "and, therefore, it does not actually exist."

Lynn and John France were married in July 2005 in a seaside wedding on Italy's Amalfi Coast, having organized the event through Regency San Marino, which coordinates weddings for couples looking to get hitched in Italy. On the company's website, Lynn is still the first radiant bride whose portrait appears in a gauzy veil, the brilliant blue sea behind her.

If that wedding was a fraud, it was news to Lynn.

"If that were true, then he's lied to the IRS," Zashin says. "He's lied to insurance companies. Banks."

In June 2009, against the advice of her attorneys, Lynn France dropped divorce proceedings when her husband came home and persuaded her to reconcile.

"I just wanted to believe the good when he came to me and said, `Let's reconcile, I love you,"' she says. "You want to give somebody a second chance."

But three months ago, Lynn says she was cleaning the sink when her husband took the couple's 2-year-old son out of her arms and said he was going to give him some milk. Minutes later, she heard the car running.

"He threw them in, no car seats, no nothing, and took off," she says.

She hasn't seen her sons since. John France had taken them to Tampa, Fla., where he currently lives with his new wife and, according to his attorney, is seeking custody of their children.

Lynn France called 911, but as in most parental custody disputes, little could be done. She is in contact with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and has a team of attorneys preparing for a court fight. Authorities have told her not to attempt to take back the children forcibly.

For Lynn, the only glimpse of her children now comes, ironically, from the same Facebook page where she found those fairy-tale wedding photos.

Until the day she can see her children again, Lynn France says she continues to text her husband, pleading with him to bring the children back to Ohio.

"The only way I've been able to see my children is on her Facebook page," she says. "It's stranger than fiction to watch this woman living my life."

IF first wife must divorces from husband but that pathetic idea!! You have comment about that?!?

XBGMER · 08-06-2010, 01:27 AM

THATS SUCK! too bad for him that she busted birdlovers on facebook which is very open and public, there is impossbile hide/privacy..

**JClarke** · 08-06-2010, 01:39 AM

***~SG~*** · 08-06-2010, 03:17 AM

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08-05-2010, 01:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
rockin'robin Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Jacksonville, Florida Posts: 15,310	Wife Sees Husband's 2nd Wedding On Facebook Woman Began Searching Facebook For Possible Affair CLEVELAND -- Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair. Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen. "I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth," says France, an occupational therapist from Westlake, a Cleveland suburb. "There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding." Affairs were once shadowy matters, illicit encounters whispered about and often difficult to prove. But in the age of Facebook and Twitter and lightning-fast communication, the notion of privacy is fast becoming obsolete. From flirtatious text messages to incriminating e-mails, marital indiscretions are much easier to track - especially if potentially damaging photographic evidence is posted online. "All of these things are just a trail of cyber breadcrumbs that are easily tracked by good divorce lawyers," says Parry Aftab, an expert on Internet safety and privacy laws. France, 41, was not completely blindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009. That fall, she had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple's newborn son came home from the hospital. Once, she found his passport at home when he was supposed to be in China for business. In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple's computer screen. "So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure," France says. "He was there with this girlfriend. I said, 'Hey, I'm his wife. We've got a baby.'" The woman told France that she was engaged to France's husband. "Sure enough, they were registered for a wedding at Target," France says. A girlfriend recommended checking the woman's Facebook page, which was then open to the public, France says, but has since become private. There, France found evidence of an unfolding relationship that she still couldn't wrap her head around. Overwhelmed with two young children, she confronted her husband. She says he told her he wouldn't actually go through with the wedding. It wasn't until she saw the wedding photos that she finally began divorce proceedings. "People who engage in these sorts of behaviors now have the option of trying to keep things private or turning it into a spectacle and becoming their own reality show," says lawyer Andrew Zashin, a child custody expert who is representing Lynn France. "In this case, it seems, the spouse may have crossed the line and gotten married while he was still married." Aftab, a lawyer who runs the online protection site WiredSafety.org, says the lesson to be learned from the Frances' case is that no form of communication is sacred anymore. "It's like trying to catch a river in your hand," she says. "It will leak out eventually." But Aftab doesn't recommend snooping around online. That can backfire in court if used inappropriately - such as when spouses log onto each other's Facebook pages without permission. If your spouse isn't trustworthy, she says, get a divorce and save yourself the trouble. Lynn's husband, John France, does not deny that he has remarried. Rather, he simply is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place. His attorney, Gary Williams, issued a statement Tuesday saying his client is asking a family law court to declare that his marriage to Lynn was "void since its inception." "While it appears that John and Lynda France were both under the impression, once upon a time, that they were married, the fact of the matter is that their marriage was never legally proper," Williams wrote, "and, therefore, it does not actually exist." Lynn and John France were married in July 2005 in a seaside wedding on Italy's Amalfi Coast, having organized the event through Regency San Marino, which coordinates weddings for couples looking to get hitched in Italy. On the company's website, Lynn is still the first radiant bride whose portrait appears in a gauzy veil, the brilliant blue sea behind her. If that wedding was a fraud, it was news to Lynn. "If that were true, then he's lied to the IRS," Zashin says. "He's lied to insurance companies. Banks." In June 2009, against the advice of her attorneys, Lynn France dropped divorce proceedings when her husband came home and persuaded her to reconcile. "I just wanted to believe the good when he came to me and said, 'Let's reconcile, I love you,'" she says. "You want to give somebody a second chance." But three months ago, Lynn says she was cleaning the sink when her husband took the couple's 2-year-old son out of her arms and said he was going to give him some milk. Minutes later, she heard the car running. "He threw them in, no car seats, no nothing, and took off," she says. She hasn't seen her sons since. John France had taken them to Tampa, Fla., where he currently lives with his new wife and, according to his attorney, is seeking custody of their children. Lynn France called 911, but as in most parental custody disputes, little could be done. She is in contact with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and has a team of attorneys preparing for a court fight. Authorities have told her not to attempt to take back the children forcibly. For Lynn, the only glimpse of her children now comes, ironically, from the same Facebook page where she found those fairy-tale wedding photos. Until the day she can see her children again, Lynn France says she continues to text her husband, pleading with him to bring the children back to Ohio. "The only way I've been able to see my children is on her Facebook page," she says. "It's stranger than fiction to watch this woman living my life." Wife Sees Husband's 2nd Wedding On Facebook - Technology News Story - WJXT Jacksonville

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PowerON Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: 37.5, 126.9 Posts: 10,333 Blog Entries: 5	What? He said his marriage license is void? If so, he failed to pay IRS tax. If it's real marriage license being recognzation from Italy to here in US. That's confuse and too stupid to plan to marry someone else. Pity, he shouldn't doing on FB with girl you wish to cheating. __________________ • [Illustrator.Blog-alloon.com] • Don't shoot me! I'm only blogger!

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*naisho* Forum Disorders M.D.,Ph.D Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 6,162	Woman discovers via Facebook her husband is married to someone else \| Mail Online Writes it differently.. The article rockin' posted seems to be in support of the soon to be divorced woman. This one seems to be otherwise. Who to believe? Pics! Ex-wife Lynn A wife who suspected her husband was having an affair found he was actually married to another woman through a simple Facebook search. Lynn France found an array of wedding pictures after typing in the name of the woman she believed her husband, John, was seeing. 'I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth,' said France, an occupational therapist from, Cleveland, Ohio. The pair had been married at Disney World, no less, with France’s husband dressed as Prince Charming, and his new bride as Sleeping Beauty. 'There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding.' France, 41, was not completely blindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009. That autumn, she had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple's newborn son came home from the hospital. Once, she found his passport at home when he was supposed to be in China for business. In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple's computer screen. 'So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure,' France said. 'He was there with this girlfriend. I said, “Hey, I'm his wife. We've got a baby”.’ The woman told her that she was engaged to France's husband. A girlfriend recommended checking the woman's Facebook page, where France found further evidence of the relationship and confronted her husband once more. She claims he promised he would not go through with the wedding – but it wasn’t until she saw that he had, that she finally began divorce proceedings. Meanwhile, France’s husband John, does not deny that he has remarried. Rather, he simply is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place. His attorney, Gary Williams, issued a statement this week saying his client is asking a family law court to declare that his marriage to Lynn was 'void since its inception.' 'While it appears that John and Lynda France were both under the impression, once upon a time, that they were married, the fact of the matter is that their marriage was never legally proper,' Williams wrote, 'and, therefore, it does not actually exist.' The couple tied the knot in a seaside wedding in July 2005 in Italy and signed a marriage license, but it was never filed, Williams said. In June 2009, France dropped divorce proceedings when her husband came home and persuaded her to reconcile. 'I just wanted to believe the good when he came to me and said, “Let's reconcile, I love you,'' she said. 'You want to give somebody a second chance.' But three months ago, France claims her husband took her children and left her without an explanation. She has not seen her sons since, who are now living with their father and his new wife in Florida. According to his lawyers, he is seeking custody of the children and ironically for France, the only glimpses of her sons now come from the Facebook page where she found his new wedding pictures.

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DDU Registered User Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: north east Posts: 804	I think both women are idiots. 1st wife for taking him bck the 2nd wife for staying married to the obviously 2 timer. What are the chances they guy will pull the same stunt when his little head finds fresh meat?

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XBGMER Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 4,451	THATS SUCK! too bad for him that she busted birdlovers on facebook which is very open and public, there is impossbile hide/privacy..

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