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		</div><h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#0d0101;"><strong>Taiwan woman divorces husband who ignored her messages </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#0d0101;"><strong>In court Mrs Lin tendered the &#8220;Read&#8221; indicators on the Line messages she had sent to her husband as proof that he had been ignoring her</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#0d0101;"><strong>The app showed he had been&#8221;blue-ticking&#8221;, opening the text messages, but not responding to any of them</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#0d0101;"><strong>A judge in Hsinchu district ruled Lin was entitled to a divorce earlier this month, citing the ignored Line messages as key evidence of her marriage being beyond repair </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#0d0101;"><strong>Married 5 years, the previously married plaintiff is in her 50s, her husband is in his 40s </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#0d0101;"><strong>Since moving in with his family in 2012, she&#8217;s paid most of the family&#8217;s expenses, including bills for his mother, brother, and sister because her husband did not have a stable income</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#0d0101;"><strong>Her mother-in-law also asked her to take out a loan to pay her father-in-law&#8217;s taxes</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="story-body__introduction"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-214391" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/line-is-the-market-leading-messaging-app-in-several-asian-countries.jpg" alt="Line is the market leading messaging app in several Asian countries" width="660" height="371" /><strong><span class="media-caption__text">Messaging app &#8216;LINE&#8217; is the market leader in several Asian countries</span></strong></h6>
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<p class="story-body__introduction">A woman in Taiwan has been granted a divorce, using the &#8220;Read&#8221; indicators on the Line messages she had sent to her husband as proof that he had been ignoring her.<br />
The app showed he had opened the text messages, but didn&#8217;t reply to any of them.<br />
A judge ruled in her favour earlier this month.<br />
It&#8217;s called &#8220;blue-ticking&#8221; &#8211; a term that refers to the act of reading but not replying to someone&#8217;s messages. The concept comes from social media apps such as WhatsApp and Line, which use tick notifications to show when someone has received and read your message.<br />
The judge in Hsinchu district&#8217;s family affairs court cited the ignored Line messages as key evidence of the woman&#8217;s marriage being beyond repair, ruling that she was therefore entitled to a divorce.<br />
Over a period of about six months, the wife, surnamed Lin, sent her husband several text messages, including one after she was admitted to hospital because of a car accident, according to Judge Kao.<br />
In one message she told her husband she was in the emergency room and asked why he simply read her messages but didn&#8217;t reply, she said.<br />
Although her husband did visit her once in hospital, the court found that his subsequent ignoring of her messages was grounds for divorce.<br />
&#8220;The defendant did not inquire about the plaintiff, and the information sent by the plaintiff was read but not replied to,&#8221; the court ruling said.<br />
&#8220;The couple&#8217;s marriage is beyond repair.&#8221;\A month or two after her accident, the husband finally sent his wife a brief message.<br />
&#8220;It was about matters related to their dog and notified her there was mail for her, but he didn&#8217;t show any concern for her,&#8221; Judge Kao said.<br />
&#8220;It appears there&#8217;s very little interaction with the plaintiff; the defendant rarely replies to the plaintiff&#8217;s messages.&#8221;<br />
The couple had been married since 2012. She is in her 50s and had been previously married. He is in his 40s.<br />
Judge Kao said there were additional problems with the marriage.<br />
After moving into the home her husband shared with his mother, younger brother, and sister-in-law, Ms Lin had to pay most of the family&#8217;s bills and other expenses. Her mother-in-law had also asked her to take out a loan to pay her father-in-law&#8217;s taxes.<br />
Her husband did not have a stable income.<br />
His family was cited as being &#8220;unfriendly&#8221; towards her, according to court documents.<br />
They would restrict how long she could shower and how high she could turn up the water temperature, the filings say.<br />
The ignored Line messages were the last straw, said Judge Kao.<br />
&#8220;A normal couple shouldn&#8217;t treat each other like that… The Line messages were a very important piece of evidence. It shows the overall state of the marriage… that the two parties don&#8217;t have good communication,&#8221; she said.<br />
&#8220;Now internet communication is very common, so these can be used as evidence. In the past, we needed written hardcopy evidence,&#8221; she noted.<br />
Ms Lin&#8217;s husband can file an appeal after receiving the court ruling by certified mail. But it seems unlikely to happen.<br />
According to Judge Kao, he has never showed up for a court hearing and hasn&#8217;t responded to any of the court&#8217;s other notices.<br />
And unlike Line messages, the court can&#8217;t even tell if he&#8217;s &#8220;Read&#8221; them.</p>
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