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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When does unnecessary contact from an ex's attorney become legal harassment?

Background: ex displayed symptoms consistent with borderline personality disorder during separation. Made false accusations (including to the police), threatened me with libel and destruction of property, had explosive rage episodes. Due to the above I specified in the separation agreement that all communication had to happen over a parenting app and put in a no harassment clause.

Post-divorce, ex has mainly used his attorney to send accusatory emails to me. The accusations are false, demonstrably so, and at first I had my attorney send documentation back. However, it became apparent that these emails were just punitive and aimed at getting me to use my personal funds to reply. I told my attorney to say that she no longer represented me. The emails stopped for a period of months after that.

Recently, ex did not want to pay for something that is mandated in the agreement. He requested mediation on unrelated issues. When the mediator requested that he address the issue of non-payment, he cancelled the session. He then started having his attorney contacted me, trying to get me to agree to an expensive mediation process with all attorneys present. I turned this down as beyond the scope of the dispute resolution process we agreed to. They keep trying to contact me on bogus grounds and I just politely document that I've already been in communication with ex and state that he needs to contact me directly.

At what point does this legal harassment become something that a judge might take into account? Either in terms of the anti-harassment clause in our contract or adjusting shared legal custody to facilitate less contact.
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So your ex has to communicate directly, except he isn’t allowed to communicate directly on your wishes, so he has his lawyer communicate with yours, and that’s harassment?  A judge might care but not for the reasons you think.[/quote]

I took it as OP saying ex is supposed to communicate only within the app, but he's having an attorney send emails and communication outside the app on his behalf. [/quote]

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