Legal Question in Family Law in Florida
I have discovered my husband's ex wife has been trying to contact him via e-mail and online messenger while he is deployed overseas. I confronted her via e-mail and left her a voicemail, letting her know that I intend to tell her husband because he deserves to know the truth and that she needs to back off from mine. On five or six separate occasions before we were married, she had been in contact with him and he would always cut it off and she would get angry and then try to get in contact with him again. He has not been in contact with her since we got married.
She claims that he was the one who contacted her, yet cannot provide proof of this claim when I demanded to see it, saying she had deleted everything. She said she would let me speak with her husband because he "knew" about her conversations with my husband, yet when I asked her to give me a phone number to reach him, she instead gave me an e-mail address of one of her male friends and pretended it was her husband's e-mail. I quickly discovered through a simple internet search that it wasn't her husband and confronted her in the lie. Later that day, either she (or a very female-sounding individual) tried calling me on my cell phone, pretending to be her husband. I hung up on the person. The next day, I get another call from someone claiming to be her husband and yelling at me for "harassing" his wife. Now, suddenly, since all of this started, I have received multiple calls from an "unknown" number; whoever it is will call, won't speak but stays on the line for about 20-30 seconds before hanging up on me (mind you, I have not called her since my original confrontation phone call telling her to stay away from my husband). I take this as a form of harassment but am not sure how to prove it is her or her friends calling me again. She is in Texas, I am in Florida. I am not sure what legal laws apply (Florida laws, Texas laws, or Federal laws) with regard to recording phone conversations, obtaining call records regarding an unknown number (AT&T said they can't look it up without a police report being filed and subpoena ordered), etc. I just want to see what I can do on my end to stop this without having to go through the headache of involving the police. I feel that the only way to stop her at this point is by telling her husband the truth so he can control his wife and keep her away from my husband. But by telling him the truth about her, could that be against the law in any way on my part? How should I proceed from this point?
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