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

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:00:00 GMT

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.
Please feel free to add comments below. I would like to hear your thoughts!

SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOUR DIVORCE - BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PUT OUT THERE BECAUSE IT MAY COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU.

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:00:00 GMT

I have found in the last couple of years that Facebook, My Space, Twitter, LinkedIn and regular emails have come up in family law cases more and more. Be careful what you put out there because it may come back and haunt you. For regular email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media don't write anything that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the newspaper. Otherwise, you may find yourself in court listening to all the things you wrote. It can be very embarassing and may damage your case. In fact, if you are facing a contested divorce or other family law case you may want to close any social media accounts and erase what you put on there to protect yourself.

Would you like to know other problems that can arise from social media sites and their impact on family law cases. Click HERE to read the Time article that addresses the situation and also feel free to submit your comments below. I would love to hear your thoughts!

Source: "Facebook and Divorce" by Belinda Lunscombe, published at Time.com.

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

SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOUR DIVORCE - BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PUT OUT THERE BECAUSE IT MAY COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU.