Legal internet Mags. Need help ASAP

OK I'll get right to it. You all know about my crazy ex wife. Well I found out just a bit ago that she broke into my room last July (we lived in the same house but I installed locks in the bedroom I was in untill I moved out in August), got into my computer. Went online. Somehow got into my sympatico email server and stole a confidential email I sent to my attorney answering some questions for a court date later in the week.

My ex's new attorney just absent mindedly (we think he sent us a gift) sent us that copy of the email my ex hacked into and stole in a stack of documents he sent to my attorney last week. So here are my questions.

I know it is very illegal what my ex did. What is the law that applies?
Can I use this a leverage to get the settlement finally done, or is that considered blackmail?

Here's a profound though....not sure if this ever crossed your mind but ask your current attorney....if you're asking us, instead of or in lieu of him...you may need to find new counsel... but then again what do i really know.

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Originally Posted by Blatant

Here's a profound though....not sure if this ever crossed your mind but ask your current attorney....if you're asking us, instead of or in lieu of him...you may need to find new counsel... but then again what do i really know.

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Believe me I would if I could afford too. It has been a year now and if I'm going to get this BS part of my past behind me then I'm going to have to take the bull by the horns to finish this.

I'm afraid that probably isn't going to help you as much as you seem to think. Your attorney will be able to keep the letter out of evidence, but I think you'd have to get a prosecutor to file charges against her for theft in order to establish that she "stole" it - hard to prove since you were in the same house. Probably not burglary as she had the right to be in the house. There is no state that I am aware of that has made it illegal to check one's spouse's email.

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Originally Posted by Pope Benedict XVI

I'm afraid that probably isn't going to help you as much as you seem to think. Your attorney will be able to keep the letter out of evidence, but I think you'd have to get a prosecutor to file charges against her for theft in order to establish that she "stole" it - hard to prove since you were in the same house. Probably not burglary as she had the right to be in the house. There is no state that I am aware of that has made it illegal to check one's spouse's email.

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Ok that's just it. She was not my spouse according to Quebec law at the time she picked the lock and broke into my room to check out my computer. Effectively once you say you want a divorce that is when the marrital stuff stops. No Husband/Wife legal shit apply's

Attorney-client privilege keeps communications between attorney and clients confidential meaning that it is nondiscoverable AND nonadmissible at trial. BUT, it wasn't her attorney who grabbed this info, it was her...which means that the most that you get would be keeping it out if your divorce goes to trial.

Take a second mortgage on the house, take out a loan, borrow money from a friend...DO WHATEVER YOU NEED TO AND GET YOUR ATTORNEY ON THE PHONE. This thing is far from over and if anything what she did (and the proof that you have of it) could be used as a bargaining chip.

You're in Canada? I'm not touching this one with a 10' pole. I don't even know enough to speak on this issue under US law, I have no idea in what ways Canada differs... Perhaps you should contact the police?