I'm really hoping someone can help me.
I am dealing with the following scenario:
My boyfriend and I live together in a nice quiet neighborhood. Seven months ago it came to light that he had sexual relations with our neighbor three houses down. She is a single divorcee with two daughters who do not live with her. After my boyfriend made his mistake and attempted to end things, the neighbor proceeded to black mail him into continuing the relationship with the threat that she would tell me. (I've seen the emails to verify this information). After two months he decided to end things regardless of the consequences and she showed up on our doorstep and refused to leave. Needless to say, my boyfriend had to come clean and that day we had to threaten to call the police before she would leave. My boyfriend and I worked things out and less than a week after the neighbor was back to "propositioning" him. All of her emails, phone calls, and texts were being ignored. Within two weeks of cutting off all communication we witnessed the neighbor come into our yard and begin to kick things over (flower pots etc). We called the police. We had to explain the whole situation to the police (they were less than sympathetic) and they stated that we needed to tell the neighbor she was not to contact either of us in anyway shape or form or come on our property ever again. Until we did that, they said there was nothing they could do. The next day my boyfriend sent her an email making it explicitly clear all relations were over and that we did not want to hear from her in anyway ever again. She responded and said that the street in front of our house was public property and we would have to see her every single day but that otherwise she would comply.
Since that day the neighbor does walk her dog by our house regularly. She waves and honks when she see us outside. We've witnessed on numerous occasions the neighbor standing outside of our house late at night (11pm-1am) flipping us off while "pretending" to walk her dog. A month ago she contacted me via LinkedIn with a disgusting message about what it was like to sleep with my boyfriend. I responded and simply said do not contact me again or I will contact the police. She responded AGAIN and apologized saying she had drank wine and cough medicine and didn't even remember sending it. Just yesterday she sent me another request to be "linked" on LinkedIn. She still continues the behavior of harassing us from the street while "walking" her dog. I don't know what to do. I can't find an attorney who deals with this type of situation and while everything she has done is relatively minor I'm tired of being harassed and afraid to leave the house for fear of running into her. My boyfriend and I are at a loss. We read on a few information sites that a cease and desist letter is sometimes helpful in terms of scaring them into leaving you alone but we can't even find an attorney who can help or advise us.
Any advice is welcome.
I am dealing with the following scenario:
My boyfriend and I live together in a nice quiet neighborhood. Seven months ago it came to light that he had sexual relations with our neighbor three houses down. She is a single divorcee with two daughters who do not live with her. After my boyfriend made his mistake and attempted to end things, the neighbor proceeded to black mail him into continuing the relationship with the threat that she would tell me. (I've seen the emails to verify this information). After two months he decided to end things regardless of the consequences and she showed up on our doorstep and refused to leave. Needless to say, my boyfriend had to come clean and that day we had to threaten to call the police before she would leave. My boyfriend and I worked things out and less than a week after the neighbor was back to "propositioning" him. All of her emails, phone calls, and texts were being ignored. Within two weeks of cutting off all communication we witnessed the neighbor come into our yard and begin to kick things over (flower pots etc). We called the police. We had to explain the whole situation to the police (they were less than sympathetic) and they stated that we needed to tell the neighbor she was not to contact either of us in anyway shape or form or come on our property ever again. Until we did that, they said there was nothing they could do. The next day my boyfriend sent her an email making it explicitly clear all relations were over and that we did not want to hear from her in anyway ever again. She responded and said that the street in front of our house was public property and we would have to see her every single day but that otherwise she would comply.
Since that day the neighbor does walk her dog by our house regularly. She waves and honks when she see us outside. We've witnessed on numerous occasions the neighbor standing outside of our house late at night (11pm-1am) flipping us off while "pretending" to walk her dog. A month ago she contacted me via LinkedIn with a disgusting message about what it was like to sleep with my boyfriend. I responded and simply said do not contact me again or I will contact the police. She responded AGAIN and apologized saying she had drank wine and cough medicine and didn't even remember sending it. Just yesterday she sent me another request to be "linked" on LinkedIn. She still continues the behavior of harassing us from the street while "walking" her dog. I don't know what to do. I can't find an attorney who deals with this type of situation and while everything she has done is relatively minor I'm tired of being harassed and afraid to leave the house for fear of running into her. My boyfriend and I are at a loss. We read on a few information sites that a cease and desist letter is sometimes helpful in terms of scaring them into leaving you alone but we can't even find an attorney who can help or advise us.
Any advice is welcome.
