You don't have to limit the use of your message pad to phone calls. You can also use it to document incidents, conversations with professionals or other witnesses that did not take place on the phone--anything you eventually might find important in your case.
The best way to do so is to purchase a message pad from your local office products store. You can get different styles and sizes of message pads, so choose the one that seems right to you. What you want to get is one that provides you with a rip off original copy, plus a pink copy that remains permanently in the book.
This means that you can take the original with you if necessary, or clip it to another document that is relevant to the content of the conversation, but the pink copy stays in the book and you can refer to it when necessary.
Always keep that message pad by the phone with a pen ready to take notes whenever you get a phone call from a family member, a school official, a lawyer, your ex husband, anyone who could play a potentially important role in your case.
If you are on the road, write your notes on an extra pad you keep in your purse and when you get home, transfer those notes to your message pad. Always include the date and time of the phone call or the incident.
Then when you are preparing to go to court and your lawyer asks you when did you get an important phone call, or what was the sequence of conversations that led to a particular incident, or if the judge asks you, when did your ex husband make that statement to you, then you have the relevant information on the message pad and can be factual, accurate, and reliable when it comes to your report of what happened, what was said, and when.
There is nothing better than being a credible witness to the people who work with you on your case and to decision makers who are going to be deciding what your future will be and that of your children.
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