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Your evidence, item by item — and the five gates each type faces
25 item types, family-filtered from the litigation taxonomy and authored for the cases this platform serves. Each page: what the item is, the five gates in neutral education with the statute quoted verbatim, a generic organizer checklist, and the objections to expect — never an analysis of your facts. Legal information, not legal advice.
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- Text messages & chat threadsThe most common exhibit in modern family cases: SMS, iMessage, and app threads between the parties.
- EmailsEmail between the parties, with schools, or with third parties.
- Social media posts & profilesPosts, comments, stories, and profile pages — commonly offered in timesharing and support disputes.
- PhotographsPhotos of the home, injuries, property, or events.
- Audio recordings§ 934.03Recorded conversations and calls.
- Video & home cameras§ 934.03Phone video, doorbell and home-security cameras, dash cameras.
- VoicemailsMessages deliberately left for you sit in a different posture than secretly captured conversations — the caller chose to speak into a recording.
- Payment-app records (Venmo, Zelle, Cash App)Peer-to-peer payment histories — support paid or not paid, transfers with telling memos, the informal ledger of a family's money.
- Bank & financial recordsStatements for checking, savings, brokerage, and retirement accounts — the backbone of support and equitable-distribution cases, and most of what Rule 12.285 already makes both sides produce..
- Pay stubs & wage recordsPay stubs, W-2s, 1099s, and employer statements — the income evidence child support runs on, and the first place a support case is won or lost on paper..
- Tax returnsThree years of returns are the standard disclosure exchange — and the sworn income story each side has already told the government, which makes them powerful comparison exhibits..
- School recordsAttendance, grades, incident reports, and communication logs — commonly offered on best-interest factors.
- Medical recordsTreatment records for a parent or child — where the hearsay exception, privacy law, and privilege meet.
- Therapy & counseling recordsThe hardest privilege territory in family court: a parent's therapy, a child's counseling, couples sessions.
- Police reports & 911 recordsIncident reports, call logs, and 911 audio — constant companions of injunction cases.
- GAL & evaluator reportsGuardian ad litem reports, parenting-plan evaluations, social investigations — court-ordered professional work with its own appointment orders, procedures, and rules about who sees what.
- Affidavits & written declarationsSworn written statements — including the financial affidavit every money case files.
- AI-generated & AI-edited materialThe newest authenticity problem: generated images, cloned voices, edited screenshots.
- Location history & phone-carrier recordsPhone location history, GPS logs, and the carrier's own records of calls and texts — offered in family cases to show patterns: where exchanges happened, who called whom, when.
- Maps, satellite images & distancesWeb maps, satellite views, and computed distances — the everyday geography of family cases: how far apart the homes are, where the school sits, what a relocation would mean in miles.
- Summary charts & calculationsA chart, summary, or calculation standing in for voluminous underlying records — years of bank statements reduced to a page, a support arrears ledger, an income timeline.
- Government electronic copies & downloadsThe deed printed from the clerk's website, the docket page, the agency record downloaded at home.
- Certified court records & prior ordersOrders from earlier cases, judgments, injunctions from other courts, criminal dispositions — the paper trail of prior proceedings, offered in family cases for support history, safety history, or the existence of an order.
- Translated documents & interpreted testimonyMessages in Spanish, records in Creole, testimony through an interpreter — six-language reality is Florida family practice.
- Deposition transcriptsSworn testimony taken before the hearing — and then offered AT it.
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Expert opinions, depositions, certified translations of foreign documents, and demonstratives are real evidence classes with their own rules — and exactly the territory where counsel plans the presentation. The Five Gates still apply to all of them; independent attorney review is the route.
Statutory excerpts on every page are verbatim from the hash-verified corpus. Legal information, not legal advice.