# May Court Order Parent to “Immediately Cease All Disparagement of” Other Parent “via Social Media”?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/may-court-order-parent-to-immediately-cease-all-disparagement-of-other-parent-via-social-media/
- Published: 2026-11-05T15:11:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T15:22:37+00:00
- Original publisher: Reason (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://reason.com/volokh/2026/11/05/may-court-order-parent-to-immediately-cease-all-disparagement-of-other-parent-via-social-media/
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- Georgia’s appeals court vacated a mother’s speech restriction.
- The trial court must consider the First Amendment issue.
- The ruling did not decide whether the restriction was unconstitutional.

## Summary

A Georgia appeals court has sent a child custody case back to the trial court to consider whether an order barring a mother from disparaging the child’s father violates the First Amendment. The ruling matters because it raises the constitutional limits of restricting a parent’s speech, including comments made on social media.

The trial court had ordered the mother to stop making disparaging remarks about the father “via social media or other means” and adopted a parenting plan saying neither parent would speak badly of the other or their family. The appeals court did not decide whether those restrictions were unconstitutional; it vacated the speech injunction, an award of attorney fees and a child support order, and instructed the lower court to address the First Amendment issue.

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