CJones1969
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- Jurisdiction
- Alabama
I am attempting to get custody of my child in an Alabama court. My ex is attempting to use text messages between my child and my wife as reason why we should not get custody. She claims the texts show that my wife is attempting to influence my child to want to move. My question is this:
Isn't the full context of a text message necessary to comprehend the exact meaning? A single text conversation or even days worth of text messages is meaningless without previous days conversations which may have been in text or Facebook Messenger or verbal by phone or FaceTime. Without all of that additional information, an outside party's interpretation of a text conversation cannot conclusively prove anything. The additional information has to be provided by the parties involved in that conversation.
So how can this misrepresentation of the messages by my ex even be admissible?
Isn't the full context of a text message necessary to comprehend the exact meaning? A single text conversation or even days worth of text messages is meaningless without previous days conversations which may have been in text or Facebook Messenger or verbal by phone or FaceTime. Without all of that additional information, an outside party's interpretation of a text conversation cannot conclusively prove anything. The additional information has to be provided by the parties involved in that conversation.
So how can this misrepresentation of the messages by my ex even be admissible?