With the multiple devices used by families, from smartphones to laptops to tablets, as well as the many storage options available for the information transmitted through and accessed by those devices, managing issues relating to electronically stored information (ESI) is an important part of family law practice.

Most practitioners have had experience with a client who has obtained an email or a text message showing that her spouse is having an affair, or a client who is convinced that the smoking gun that will prove that his spouse is secreting funds and hiding assets is available on her computer.