Nothing can be more heart-wrenching that the thought that you have to divide the family photos with your former spouse. Do you have to sit and choose them . . . this one for you, this one for me?
And there's more! How many of us really look at old family photos in an album? I suspect not many. Also, old print photos degrade, the photos become brittle, the colors faded. New digital sharing produces photos you can view like a slide show on your TV screen.
Web technology makes it easy. There's a company out there that will scan them for you so both parents get a copy of every photo.Now there's no dividing--only sharing in a digital format. Here's how you do it:
You pack up all the photos in a box and send them off to a professional scanner.
If you wish (and I recommend it), you arrange the photos in groups such as "Summer vacation 2005," 'Mattie's birthday 2006,' etc. This allows you to get digital "albums" with all of the related photos together.
It takes 4 to 6 weeks to get them back, but the originals are returned and you get a DVD with all of the photos.
Check out this company: http://www.scancafe.com/
A good review comparing scancafe to other similar companies is found here in Money Magazine.
Thanks to Jacqueline Valdespino from the ABA Family Law Listserv for this helpful hint.
Footnote: That's my son John in the photo above, taken 38 years ago. He's with his 4-year-old "bride" who is wearing my wedding dress that I contributed to the dress-up chest. Hillary's mom took this photo. This was the day John came home from playing at Hillary's house and exclaimed: "I just love Hillary. She knows so many great fart stories." Every photo has its story, don't you think?
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