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HOW TEXT MESSAGING IS A DIGITAL LIPSTICK ON THE COLLAR, JUST ASK TIGER!

Text messaging has become a super popular way to communicate.  However, did you know that it could also spell disaster with your impending divorce?

Consider the following from the New York Times article about texting:

How does someone make up an excuse when what is happening is right there, written in black and white?” asked Mitchell Karpf, a Miami divorce lawyer who is also chairman of the bar association’s family law section. “By the time someone shows up with a handful of texts, there is no going back.”

Although most e-mail users have come to understand that messages remain on their computers even if deleted, text messages are often regarded as more ephemeral — type, hit “send” and off it goes into the ether. But messages can remain on the sender’s and receiver’s phones, and even if they are deleted, communications companies store them for anywhere from days to a few weeks. AT&T said that, at most, it saved text messages for 72 hours while Verizon said it saved them for 5 to 10 days.

Source:  "Digital Lipstick on the Collar" by Laura M. Holson, published by the New York Times.

To learn more about how text messaging can effect your family law divorce, click here for a great article in the New York Times.
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