Technology and Your Digital Life
The Pros and Cons of Online Divorce
July 7, 2022
What Is an NFT and How Do You Transfer Ownership of NFTs at Death?
February 24, 2022
What Happens to Your Digital Presence After You Die?
February 17, 2022
What Is Digital Estate Planning?
February 9, 2021
The importance of having a digital estate plan has grown exponentially over the past decade as technology continues to occupy our daily lives. Without an estate plan, these assets could be lost forever, or your personal security could be at risk. These possibilities lead to the question: Who has access to my online accounts, and how will those accounts be managed and distributed if I become incapacitated or pass away?
Is Big Brother or the Seattle Police Department Watching You?
October 3, 2016
The Seattle Police Department broke at least one Seattle law when they purchased and used Geofeedia, a CIA funded Surveillance Company that tracks social media posts and can tell users what you said, where you posted from as well as find other posts in your area. Secretly buying this software vio...
Who Gets the Embryos?
September 23, 2016
We live in an amazing time, when couples of all shapes and sorts can come together to form a family. These bonds can be beautiful, diverse and complex. Take for example the issue of frozen embryos, a technology which has opened the gates to parenthood but also resulted in thorny ethical and legal...
Kids and Electronics by Randall Enlow
May 22, 2016
Smartphones and tablets are simply ubiquitous. As a consequence, children are using them more often and at increasingly young ages, whether the actual versions or toys designed to imitate adult devices. Many if not most of us have likely witnessed a young child in our life seemingly addicted to u...
Smartphone Evidence on the Rise
July 6, 2015
A classic scene from old movies is the private investigator hired to see whether or not a spouse is cheating or not. These days, we carry around our own private investigator in the form of smart phones and social media. According to a survey from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 97% o...
Facebook Blamed for Divorce
May 19, 2015
Earlier in the week, we wrote about a UK study that showed that social media was a growing cause for marital strife and divorces. Now a woman in Chicago is saying that Facebook ruined her marriage, and she's not the only one. She told a local news station that she was a Facebook addict and that ...
UK Survey Shows the Damage Social Media has on Relationships
May 17, 2015
Social media has added an entirely different spin on divorce proceedings. Social media can reveal a lot of information that a partner doesn't want revealed. Worse, many of the entries are public. Spouses have caught their partners cheating through looking at Facebook histories. In the UK, a surv...