Checking your spouse\u2019s e-mail in secret could have big consequences when filing for divorce. Take Leon Walker, a Michigan man, who is scheduled to go on trial February 7 on criminal charges of accessing the family computer to log onto his wife\u2019s e-mail account to see if she was cheating on him. If he is convicted, Leon could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.<\/p>\n
Walker contends that he had a right to use the computer as he bought it, and that she kept her passwords in an address book by the computer. Leon felt that he had a right to read her e-mail to check that their child and stepchild were safe as he had a feeling that she was having an affair with her second ex-husband. (Leon is the third husband.) Clara, Leon\u2019s wife, had no idea he read her e-mail until it entered divorce proceedings.<\/p>\n