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1. My former spouse wouldn't answer the home phone when I talked with the kids during the divorce. I wrote an app that texted her and logged the attempt for reporting to the guardian ad litem.

2. She also wouldn't answer the door when during kids pick-up. The same app texted her when I was outside.

3. To disprove her allegations I wasn't involved in the kids school and activities I used Android's Locale app to trigger geofenced log entries.

4. Python and Matplotlib came in quite handy automating timeline generation from PDF docs. Never got that one quite perfect though.

I'm not sure I could have prevailed in getting more time with my kids without the time savings automation gave me. I've seen other fathers stopped cold in Court who were less prepared.

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This is awesome. You should turn this into a sevice or App -- call it DivorceBot or CustodyBot or FatherTime ?

Considering that close to a MILLION Americans get divorced every year, at a 50% rate i.e. half of marriages are ending up in divorce in the US.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage_divorce_tables.htm

I saw on a reddit discussion that this has already become a service some courts use. I can't remember the name and it might not have been even mentioned ("PM me") but it exists already.

Nicely done! Amazing how slanted family court is that one has to go to such measure to subvert such deceit.

May you and your children be blessed.

Did you have to prove your system was logging real data?

You might be able to use https://opentimestamps.org/ to provide evidence over time (i.e. proving it wasn't fabricated all at once).

Still, that doesn't prove that the individual points weren't fabricated at the time.

Another question is if this will be admissible in the court.

There isn't a blanket reason why it wouldn't be. In a particular case it's up to the judge, and the judge's decision probably depends on the quality of the experts that can be found to explain it.

I am not a lawyer but it would seem if you attest to the fact that it is reliable data it would be admissible. Lying under oath and fabricating evidence is still against the law.

> To disprove her allegations I wasn't involved in the kids school and activities...

There don't seem to be any criminal charges here.

That doesn't mean you don't get sworn.

Blockchain?

"I was on Mars on 13/10/2017"

Still a lie, even in the blockchain

They accept paper logs as well. Infact many judges just order paper logs

It was enough for the GAL to make a positive recommendation, and that seemed to be what the Court was after (the recommendation).

The SMS part would mean you could in theory subpoena the telco for proof of that part if it came down to it.

What is your email address,rrggrr? Or rather would you email me if you do not want to make it public? See my update email address in my profile.

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