Talking Parents recently increased the monthly fee and yet the service is worse.
90% of the time I'm unable to open up a message, resulting in having to wait 1/2 day to it to work
Anytime I log on, I have to sit thru 8 talking parents advertising commercials to even access the account.
It's awful.
Is there any other apps that courts allow us to use?
I can't stand this app or is anyone else going to come up with a better one anytime soon.
Their customer service is horrible and careless as well. Such a waste of money.
All day long. In case of an emergency then what?
Everyone who is a non custodial parent need to beware that during any slightest conflict between attorney and client, Talking Parents staff indulges alienation towards their customers. They also release your private information to their parties without notifying you.
As like many reviews that I have read this app is complete nonsense and truly does give narcissistic, sadistic, unwilling to actually co parent, parents feel as though if they send tons of irrelevant messages that the other parent will look bad. I do not open many messages from my sons dad because the title alone gives me anxiety. The courts don't care how badly you've been abused. All the courts want is for the situation to be out of their hands and to place a band aid on the case.
This app allows power hungry parents to continue to feed their sick brains. Sad. I would not recommend!
Absolutely horrible. I think they fully take advantage of a family's difficult situation to make money off you. I was using this app for my very volatile situation with my ex-husband, I had over a years worth of correspondence between us and then they pulled my account from me until I upgraded!
I obviously was forced to upgrade in order to get back all the evidence of the verbal abuse I put up with co-parenting with my ex.
Absolutely disgusting tactic to make money off of people in abusive terrible situations.
Don't sign up for it….there has to be better ways than this.
This saved a lot of endless emails and text and monitored the behavior of the other parent by the court. This helped save a lot of name calling and other unhealthy behavior. It did not stop it, but it did help. Best 9.99 a month I have spent in a long time
The ex merely uses this app to send me requests for money. She makes ALL of the decisions without my informed consent then merely sends me requests for money. I've been as cordial as anyone could possibly be in my asking her to actually CO-PARENT together. But no, she just needs it on record that she's sent the "invoice", so to speak. These sorts of apps don't actually help. It's another indicator of the times. How does this app which gives parents the freedom to be irresponsible with the rights of the child's "non-custodial"'parent help the child? It seems to only work to keep their parents firmly in their childish lack of accountability which led to the poor behaviors of one or both of the parents to begin with. I don't hate the app, but I hate the reason for it. It isn't right.
For several months I was double charged for a premium account. I was even charged 3 times once. I keep having to contact these jerks and every time they say to contact Apple. They won't fix the problem and they don't care. For a long time they also had the name of my co parent and I mixed up. Just awful.
First they stole 90mins I had left and I misses the only 5min call I'm allowed every wensday which is very important to my 4 year old emotional health! And them after finally able to afford the premium service again none of the video calling is working! Don't waste you money on this app it's a tool to hurt parents relationships with there children not help! ScAM!...
This app is the same thing as texting from your phone It just they put another name on text message as all it is. All you have to do the only difference between this app and you texting from your phone straight text message is that you have to remember not to erase your text messages wow. This this app is for people who cannot remember to not get rid of stuff. And it's court ordered because I guess we're all dumbasses.
Answer: Hi, Michael. That decision would have to be made in court. We do not set any rules or regulations and act only as a way to record communication between parents.
Answer: Yes like any other text message it's still on your phone unless you erased it.
Answer: Yes, if an image is viewed an eye icon will appear and will say "viewed" and the time it was viewed.
Answer: Yes you can. You request a full report, or I believe you can request single conversations only. In Colorado these are self authenticating and can be used in court as exhibits.
Answer: If You typed out the messages originally on either your phone or your computer then unless you erased it you have the original copy You don't need a copy from nobody else You have it you typed it.
Talking Parents has a rating of 1.7 stars from 73 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Talking Parents most frequently mention customer service and court order. Talking Parents ranks 176th among Legal Services sites.