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    Default Can Your Spouse Legally Open Your Mail

    Is it legal for your wife to open mail that is addressed only to you?

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    Default Re: Can Your Spouse Legally Open Your Mail

    That's going to depend upon the full facts. If you're married and living together, whatever else is going on, you're not at all likely to get legal authorities to be interested in a claim that your wife opened a letter addressed to you. If that's your situation, it sounds like time to visit a divorce lawyer.

    If you're separated from your spouse, you should put in a mail forwarding order.

    Depending upon where you're located, some federal circuits regard the issue of what happens to mail after it's legally removed from the recipient's mailbox to be a non-legal matter, while others consider it to be subject to federal mail theft laws until it reaches the hands of the addressee.

    Beyond that, see 18 USC Sec. 1708.

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