Family law

Almost every control that used to need a front door now runs through a device. The difficulty for a family law team is that most of it looks exactly like an ordinary family sharing a phone plan.

Two parents describe the same child and the accounts do not match. The child’s phone usually holds a dated record that neither parent can produce from memory.

A client changes her locks, her number and her passwords, and he still knows where she was on Tuesday. Usually the answer is an account nobody thought about, doing exactly what it was built to do.

No official list of signs exists, and Cafcass does not use the term. Here is what the phrase means, what Cafcass looks at instead, and how this behaviour now shows up on a child’s phone.

A separation ends the shared address, not the shared accounts. Here is how post separation abuse travels through a phone, why it reads as reasonable co-parenting, and what a client can do about the technology.

Parental alienation now often happens through a child’s phone, in group chats and shared accounts. What it looks like, how it differs from ordinary safety concern, and what family courts consider.