A adult woman inward Taiwan has been granted a divorce, using the "Read" indicators on the Line messages she had sent to her hubby every bit proof that he had been ignoring her.
The app showed he had opened the text messages, but didn't respond to whatever of them.
A guess ruled inward her favour before this month.
It's called "blue-ticking" - a term that refers to the human activity of reading but non replying to someone's messages. The concept comes from social media apps such every bit WhatsApp in addition to Line, which role tick notifications to present when somebody has received in addition to read your message.
The guess inward Hsinchu district's solid unit of measurement affairs courtroom cited the ignored Line messages every bit cardinal prove of the woman's spousal human relationship existence beyond repair, ruling that she was thence entitled to a divorce.
Over a menstruum of almost 6 months, the wife, surnamed Lin, sent her hubby several text messages, including 1 later she was admitted to infirmary because of a machine accident, according to Judge Kao.
In 1 message she told her hubby she was inward the emergency room in addition to asked why he precisely read her messages but didn't reply, she said.
Although her hubby did catch her 1 time inward hospital, the courtroom constitute that his subsequent ignoring of her messages was grounds for divorce.
"The accused did non inquire almost the plaintiff, in addition to the information sent past times the plaintiff was read but non replied to," the courtroom ruling said.
"The couple's spousal human relationship is beyond repair.”
A calendar month or 2 later her accident, the hubby finally sent his married adult woman a brief message.
"It was almost matters related to their domestic dog in addition to notified her at that topographic point was postal service for her, but he didn't present whatever work for her," Judge Kao said.
"It appears there's real petty interaction alongside the plaintiff; the accused rarely replies to the plaintiff's messages.”
The duet had been married since 2012. She is inward her 50s in addition to had been previously married. He is inward his 40s.
Judge Kao said at that topographic point were additional problems alongside the marriage.
After moving into the abode her hubby shared alongside his mother, younger brother, in addition to sister-in-law, Ms Lin had to pay most of the family's bills in addition to other expenses. Her mother in law had likewise asked her to own got out a loan to pay her father-in-law's taxes.
Her hubby did non own got a stable income.
His solid unit of measurement was cited every bit existence "unfriendly" towards her, according to courtroom documents.
They would bound how long she could shower in addition to how high she could plough upward the H2O temperature, the filings say.
The ignored Line messages were the lastly straw, said Judge Kao.
"A normal duet shouldn't process each other similar that… The Line messages were a real of import slice of evidence. It shows the overall acre of the marriage… that the 2 parties don't own got skillful communication," she said.
"Now cyberspace communication is real common, then these tin order the axe live used every bit evidence. In the past, nosotros needed written hardcopy evidence," she noted.
Ms Lin's hubby tin order the axe file an appeal later receiving the courtroom ruling past times certified mail. But it seems unlikely to happen.
According to Judge Kao, he has never showed upward for a courtroom hearing in addition to hasn't responded to whatever of the court's other notices.
And different Line messages, the courtroom can't fifty-fifty tell if he's "Read" them.
BBC News