Thousands of messages. One timeline you can check line by line.
Send me the text threads, emails and co-parenting app exports in your matter. You get back a dated chronology of what matters, and every entry cites the page it came from, so you can verify any line in seconds.
Over 5,000 pages: 10 cents per additional page. Standard delivery: 48 hours.
Upload recordsWhy a cited timeline
In a custody dispute, the messages between the parents are often the best evidence of how each of them communicates, honors the schedule and supports the child's relationship with the other parent. The problem is volume. Nobody can put four thousand texts in front of a judge.
A chronology lets you find the entries that matter and go straight to the original. Because each entry carries its source page, you are never relying on my summary of what someone said. You can read the message itself.
The chronology is a work product for counsel. It does not authenticate messages or make anything admissible; that remains a matter for you and the court.
What a page looks like
| Date | From | Entry | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2025 | Father | Asks to swap the March 8 weekend for March 15 because of a work trip. | Export p. 41 |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Mother | Declines the swap; says the child has a birthday party March 15. | Export p. 41 |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Father | Messages at 6:12 p.m. that he is outside for pickup; no reply in thread. | Export p. 44 |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Mother | Replies at 9:40 p.m. that the child was asleep and pickup can happen tomorrow. | Export p. 44 |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Mother | Informs Father of a school conference on April 24 and asks if he will attend. | Export p. 58 |
How it works
- Upload the exports: phone text exports, email PDFs, OurFamilyWizard, TalkingParents or AppClose reports. Upload records.
- Tell me the issues you care about (the schedule, communication, safety, finances, et al.).
- Get back the chronology with every entry cited to its source page.
Thirty days after final delivery I destroy your records and my working files for the matter and send you a signed certificate of destruction.
About
My name is David A. Black, and I have worked in complex litigation support for 30 years. Earlier in that run I was a Senior IP Paralegal Specialist and Electronic Evidence Liaison at the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices of Cooley Godward LLP (now Cooley LLP) and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper). I was also a project manager at OnPoint Analytics, a small Bay Area firm specializing in data analysis for testifying economists in high-stakes litigation in the early 2000s.
I earned a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, a Master's in English Literature from San Francisco State University, and a California public school teaching credential from the University of San Francisco. I taught middle school in San Francisco as a young man.