No, You May Not Track Your Spouse or Your Ex
The implications of this new Texas rule will only be revealed over time and through case law as it develops. "I want to be the test case," said no one ever.
November 13, 2023 at 02:51 PM
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Not so long ago, I had a client involved in a divorce who discovered an Apple tag in her purse. She didn't want to be tracked so she tossed it into the bed of a truck at a Buc-ee's. Her former spouse is probably still wondering what she was doing in Wichita Falls or San Angelo, or wherever the truck ended up!
Once upon a time the bread-and-butter assignments for private investigators were to follow a spouse suspected of cheating. The gumshoe was to take photographs of a possibly unfaithful spouse coming and going from The No-Tell Motel or that person's house. The "money shot" was to catch the spouse kissing his or her secret love goodbye in the driveway. Twice an errant spouse in one of my cases was photographed walking down the street holding hands with the suspected lover.
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