“…In family law, parties frequently have to prove what information has been exchanged between two spouses. When the parties communicate via letter or e-mail, it is easy to produce reliable evidence: just photocopy the letter or print the e-mail message. Text messages, however, are not quite so easy. It is not practical to physically take a cell phone into court, and it is certainly not possible to send a cell phone to an adverse attorney during discovery. Given the wild popularity of text messaging in recent years – in 2011, more than 6 billion text messages were sent per day in the U.S. alone – odds are good that if you go through a divorce, you will need to preserve a text message to show a judge or attorney…”
Mar
19
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