• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month August 12, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Family Law
  • schedule 90 minutes

AI, Deepfakes, and Digital Evidence in Divorce and Custody Cases

Authenticating Texts, Screenshots, Social Media, App Data, and AI-Generated Content in Family Court

About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will discuss how family law attorneys can preserve, present, authenticate, and challenge digital evidence in family court proceedings. The authoritative panelists will examine various evidence types, including: texts, screenshots, social media, email, parenting apps, doorbell footage, digital financial records, location data, cloud-based records, metadata, altered images, falsified communications, and AI-generated audio/video.

Description

Family court clients frequently bring their attorneys digital evidence, which can be essential in proving parenting-time violations, harassment, hidden assets, threats, substance abuse, dissipation, valid income, coercive conduct, and credibility concerns. The cautionary tale is that the same evidence may be incomplete, misleading, altered, out of context, or even fabricated.

Generative AI and deep-fake technologies have layered new risks upon family court proceedings. The panel will navigate how this variety of evidence can affect authentication, chain of custody, expert testimony, discovery, strategy, and more.

Listen as our panel provides family law practitioners with practical guidance for managing a client’s digital evidence in family court hearings, settlements, and trials.

Presented By

Kelly L. Burris
Senior Litigation Partner
Cordell & Cordell

Ms. Burris has settled and litigated complex custody cases and property cases involving multi-million dollar estates. She has also successfully litigated child custody relocation cases. Ms. Burris is licensed in Texas and Oklahoma. She is also Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Sandra M. Radna, Esq.
Founding Attorney
Law Offices of Sandra M. Radna, P.C.

Ms. Radna has been practicing law since 1993 and her many years of experience coupled with her empathy for the humanity of others repeatedly results in success for her clients. She was a pre-Med major and psychology minor at Hofstra from where she graduated with a B.A. prior to attending Adelphi University for Nursing. Ms. Radna started her own firm with a partner and after 17 years started her current practice which she has had since 2012.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Wednesday, August 12, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

I. Digital evidence in modern family law litigation

II. Intake, preservation, and early case assessment

III. Authenticating digital evidence

IV. AI-generated evidence and deepfakes

V. Discovery and forensic investigation

VI. Experts and evidentiary challenges

VII. Motions, hearings, trial presentation

VIII. Practical strategies for family law litigators


The panel will explore these and other key areas:

  • Digital evidence in divorce, custody, support, domestic abuse, and post-decree proceedings
  • Authenticating media: texts, screenshots, emails, social media, parenting-app data, location information, photos, audio, and video
  • Preservation: original files, metadata, complete message threads, device data, and cloud-based records
  • Discovery, subpoenas, forensic collection, and expert testimony
  • Hearsay, relevance, unfair prejudice, privacy, spoliation, and sanctions issues