Disappearing-message apps may not protect privacy in divorce
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Over the past several years, family law attorneys have been warning their clients about the pitfalls of digital communication. The face-to-face conversations of the past have been largely supplanted by emails, texts, cellphone calls and posts on social media sites. There is nothing wrong with these communication methods, per se, but they do leave a trail – a retrievable record of things said and done. It’s no wonder that digital communications are increasingly being used as evidence in divorce and child custody cases. Digital discovery is a two-way street, however, and