As if to temper all the optimistic love chatter leading up to Valentine's Day, a survey of divorce lawyers has found 92 percent of them think there's been a dramatic increase in the number of cases using evidence taken from cellphones during the past three years.
Mobile phones have become not only a necessity for daily life but also a means of capturing what can be pivotal evidence when a marriage goes south.
"Texts, emails, and Facebookposts have removed a lot of the he said/she said ambiguity from the divorce process because they represent written documentation," Ken Altshuler, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, told msnbc.com this morning.
"In particular, text messages can often be the most incriminating pieces of evidence because they are regularly composed at the spur of the moment and can reflect raw emotions."
