Family disputes today. Civil and criminal-adjacent tomorrow.

Behaviour-based divorce evidence

Especially relevant where conduct is being raised in financial proceedings.

What LegallyHeard does: Pull 2–4 years of WhatsApp + SMS + email between the parties; flag patterns of coercive control language, financial gaslighting, alcohol-related incidents, harassment of family members. Cross-reference with bank-statement narratives where available.

What this saves: Solicitor reading time drops from 20–35 hours to a 30-minute review of a pre-flagged report.

Illustrative vignette: Wife's solicitor uses LegallyHeard to surface 47 instances of "you're imagining things again" across 3 years of WhatsApp, anchored to dates that align with bank-transfer-removal events. Used in support of conduct argument under s.25(2)(g) MCA 1973.

Pattern of late or missed handovers

For section 8 applications and breach-of-order contemplations.

What LegallyHeard does: Take the parents' communications + doorbell-camera video + dashcam clips, align them on a timeline. Auto-flag every handover where the actual arrival deviated more than 15 minutes from the agreed time, with a quote on each side.

What this saves: The "pattern" claim is often dismissed at hearing because the evidence is anecdotal. LegallyHeard makes it numeric, dated and footnoted.

Illustrative vignette: Father claims handovers happen "on time, mostly". LegallyHeard shows 23 of 48 handovers over 11 months arrived more than 30 mins late, with WhatsApp messages chasing each one. Statistical pattern accepted by the court.

Cross-referencing chat boasts with Form E

Form E disclosure and undisclosed assets / income.

What LegallyHeard does: Scan WhatsApp / SMS / Instagram for casual financial admissions ("just booked the Maldives", "got £8k back from HMRC last week", "the BMW finance is fine"), photos of receipts / handbags / watches with EXIF dates, holiday photos with GPS. Compare to the Form E timeline.

What this saves: Forensic accountants charge from £200/hr. We don't replace them, but we hand them the leads they would otherwise spend days finding.

Illustrative vignette: Husband's Form E shows £42k/year self-employed income. LegallyHeard surfaces WhatsApp boasting about a £14k cash week in May, a £6k holiday paid for in cash, and a Rolex with EXIF dated June. Used in support of the wife's Schedule of Deficiencies.

Building the pattern for a non-mol

Applications for non-molestation orders under FLA 1996.

What LegallyHeard does: Take every message thread across WhatsApp / SMS / iMessage / Instagram from a single contact, sort by date, surface every message that scores high on the abuse/threat lexicon, time-clustered. Output a chronology suitable for a witness statement exhibit.

What this saves: Litigants in person often produce screenshots that get rejected for being out of order, undated, or partial. LegallyHeard outputs a coherent, hash-chained chronology.

Illustrative vignette: Applicant produces 18 months of WhatsApp + 4 months of post-block SMS. LegallyHeard outputs a 26-page dated chronology with 41 threat-tagged messages. Non-mol granted ex parte.

Conduct around the signing event

For challenges based on duress, lack of legal advice, or disclosure failures.

What LegallyHeard does: Focus the timeline on the 90-day window either side of the signing date. Surface every communication about the agreement, the lawyer, the assets, the wedding. Cross-reference with the date of the lawyer's letter of advice (if any).

What this saves: The factual basis for a Radmacher challenge usually lives in chat threads no one has read end-to-end. We collapse that into a timeline.

Illustrative vignette: Wife challenges the pre-nup on duress grounds. LegallyHeard extracts every WhatsApp in the 60 days pre-signing where the husband says some variant of "sign it or the wedding's off". Used as exhibit to the witness statement.

Pre-mediation evidence bundle

For both family mediation and FDR / private FDR.

What LegallyHeard does: Produce a neutral, structured timeline that both parties can agree is the factual record before the mediator starts. Useful especially when one party insists "that's not what happened."

What this saves: Mediations frequently stall in the first two hours arguing about facts. A pre-agreed evidence chronology compresses that into a 10-minute review.

Illustrative vignette: Couple at FMC mediation produces a LegallyHeard-generated timeline as the agreed factual record. Mediator starts with that. Three sessions reduced to two.

When a family matter turns into a criminal allegation

Where a C100 or non-mol triggers counter-allegations to the police.

What LegallyHeard does: A family application is often answered with a criminal allegation, coercive control, harassment, assault, made to strengthen the other side's position. When that happens the same message history has to serve two forums at once. LegallyHeard keeps every extract in its surrounding cluster with timestamps, so a line pulled out of context by the other party can be shown against the full exchange it came from.

What this saves: Context is the first casualty when allegations escalate. A single screenshot can look damning alone and innocuous in sequence. A dated, hash-chained chronology that shows the run-up and aftermath is far harder to mischaracterise, and far harder to have excluded as cherry-picked.

Illustrative vignette: After a C100 is filed, the other party reports a "threatening" message to police. LegallyHeard shows that message inside its 11-message cluster, revealing it was a reply to a series of provocations minutes earlier, with times. The full context is exhibited to both the family and criminal matters. LegallyHeard organises and preserves the record; it does not decide guilt or innocence.