If stalking is illegal, how is it possible for anyone to hire a private investigator to track you just because someone wants to?
Background: My husband and I cut contact with his mother in 2017 due to a very violent response to establishing boundaries. Very quickly after that her husband, her daughter, and her were slandering me (mostly) to everyone they knew. She lied about what happened and things I said (I was actually silent almost the whole time and when trying to respond she went off and told me to get the beep out of her house). The situation was awful. A friend of hers contacted me to tell me that I was taking him away from his mom and her, "his second mom", which was never the intention, but just to tell her we can run our own life and want her to back off some. MIL texted me telling me she's "onto me" after we left and madr a veiled threat.