September 11, 2016
Q: I can’t believe it–my former business partner has been smearing me around town! I was recently partnering with someone on a real estate deal. She ultimately pulled out of it, which created a lot of problems for me. Although I was really upset at the time, I took the high road, put my nose to the grindstone and plowed ahead with the deal to make it happen. Because we’re in same community, I’ve gotten wind that this ex-partner is starting to badmouth me around town. After having been reasonably gracious about the lousy way she left our deal, I’m really angry to find out that she’s taking the low road. Can I sue her for being a malicious bigmouth? A: The legal area of defamation, which includes libel (for written statements) and slander (for oral statements), can be a tricky area. In order to succeed in a libel or slander case, you usually have to prove that a spoken or written statement was false and was made to a third party. Depending on whether…
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