Technology may be accelerating Rhode Islanders into divorce situations rather than simply making family communications and family workloads easier. As communication gets faster and easier using technology it brings with it just as many problems as it does solutions.
Today we have access to email, instant messaging, the ability to share photo albums, video chat rooms, internet pornography, online software, music and movie piracy and even live chat via webcams. All you need is the right computer equipment and minimal knowledge and you can be having a conversation with some across the street, in the next state, or in another country.
Personally, I am an advocate of technology. I have immersed myself in it for more than two decades. Yet now I see the technology front changing in the affect it has on my law practice. '
As a Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer, I continue to see more and more marriages breaking down. This is not because a spouse has an inability to communicate but because one or both spouses seek out a third party of the opposite sex to express their feelings and/or discuss their troubles over the internet.
When a married woman finds a man on the internet who seemingly empathizes with her situation and validates her feelings via the anonymity and secrecy of the internet, this communication does not lend itself to a therapeutic repair of the marriage. Rather, this type of communication either by a husband or a wife to a third-party who may be unknown and virtually unverifiable over the internet is more likely to create an initial bond of friendship with the third-party friend.
Let me say first that there is nothing wrong with this type of friendship as long as it doesn't cross boundaries and provided the husband and wife take measures to communicate and improve their own relationship. If the spouse speaking with his or her new third-party "internet friend" finds more comfort, empathy, and connection with that "friend", feelings may develop that extend beyond friendship and damage the marital relationship. The spouse with the internet friend then may develop a dependency upon the internet friend for needs he or she would otherwise be getting from their spouse. If the married couple does not focus their efforts on repairing what may be lacking in their relationship by going to marriage counseling or seeking some common ground to re-establish their marital bond or love relationship then the internet friendship could mean the death of an otherwise potentially savable marriage.
When a marriage reaches the point where a spouse has connected with one or more persons on the internet who satisfy more needs for than their current spouse, the situation escalates into one of internet infidelity which may also be intertwined with an internet addiction.
When one or both of the parties reach the point where the marriage is irretrievably broken by an internet addiction or infidelity and divorce is inevitable, that is where I come in.
My name is Attorney Christopher A. Pearsall and I am proud to be able to advertise and offer my services as Rhode Island's Most Affordable Full-Time Divorce and Family Law Lawyer. Strangely, however, it isn't my affordability or my full-time focus on divorce and family law that is significant to this article, but rather it is my experience prior to and during my tenure as a family law attorney that now has found its way to the forefront of my law practice.
Several decades ago, before I became an attorney, I began learning how to build and repair computers, network systems, websites, and develop internet programming techniques. As times shifted and I became a lawyer I learned more about the technology behind formatting hard drives, creating server systems, and understanding the technology behind hard drive construction and drive writing and retrieval techniques.
What the heck does this mean to you, right?
Well, in cases involving a home computer or laptop, proof of internet addiction, proof of internet infidelities and proof of marital misspending or diversion of assets and bank accounts are often contained as close as the home computer. Usually the spouse who has created the situation may take efforts to erase or remove evidence of their activities from the home computer.
The benefit is that items are never really ever removed from the home computer, they simply lay dormant somewhere on the computer system waiting to be found. Now, here is the dilemma. To get a forensic expert involved in a case to simply begin the examination of a computer hard drive typically costs between $3,000 to $5,000 just for the initial scan of the hard drive and the return of the hard drive may not be accomplished. If after spending $5,000 to $15,000 on a forensic specialist to retrieve information that may be helpful to you, the attorney must review the information and the forensic specialist must be prepared to testify at trial and must have followed the essential steps to establish the expert's credibility and to be able to legally work with the attorney to verify and validate the information and get it into evidence. The end result. You can expect to expend an average of $10,000 on an expert hard drive forensic specialist just to find out IF there is information helpful to you.
Imagine having at your disposal a divorce attorney who is fairly adept at creating forensic duplication of hard drives in accordance with law enforcement standards and who can, for a fraction of the cost, determine if there is information that is readily retrievable from the hard drive of the family or work computer that will assist you in your case.
I am happy to reach a level of skill where I may now offer my services as Rhode Island's Most Affordable Full-Time Techno-Divorce Lawyer. Several cases in the last 3 years have yielded information that has either helped resolve cases in favor of my clients and in other cases has resulted in the settlement of cases for costs that are much less than it would cost for a full forensic analysis by a certified expert specialist in hard drive information recovery.
Do you have a reasonable basis to believe that a computer has any information helpful to your divorce case? You may want to have an attorney who will save you time and money and get you answers faster than you might otherwise expect.
For those who have divorces relating to internet addictions, internet infidelities, or missing assets or debts that may have been recorded on a home or business computer, you may find that I'm just what the client ordered.
Authored By:
Christopher A. Pearsall
Attorney-at-Law
70 Dogwood Drive, Suite 304
West Warwick, RI 02893
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