There are no secret tactics. There is public-place surveillance, public record work, and lawful open source research, done patiently. Anyone advertising more than that is describing either theatre or a crime.
What follows is what an infidelity engagement actually involves, including the parts people do not expect. Surveillance is $1,000 per day, flat.
What does an infidelity investigation actually involve?
Surveillance from public vantage points, producing timestamped video and stills with a written chronological log. We document where a subject went, when, how long they stayed and who they were with. Where it helps, public record work identifies a second party or establishes a shared address.
We document. We do not interpret, and the report reads the same way whether the findings are what you expected or not.
How many days does it take?
Usually one to three, and the timing matters far more than the total. A day chosen around a known irregularity in the subject’s routine is worth three chosen at random. Tell us the days and times something is different, because that is where this work succeeds.
We will also tell you when we think a subject’s schedule makes an assignment unlikely to produce anything, rather than booking it anyway.
What will an investigator not do?
We do not access phones, email or social accounts. We do not obtain telephone call records or bank records. We do not record private conversations, which section 934.03 of the Florida Statutes prohibits without the consent of all parties. We do not place a tracking device on a vehicle you do not own, prohibited by section 934.425, and joint titling does not automatically make it lawful.
In a family case, unlawfully obtained material does not merely fail. It can reach custody, and it hands the other side an argument that has nothing to do with the conduct you hired us to document.
Does it matter in a Florida divorce?
Florida is a no fault state, so adultery is not required to dissolve a marriage. It can still be relevant to alimony where marital funds were spent on the relationship, and to parenting where the circumstances affect the child. Whether it matters in your case is a question for your attorney, and having documentation before you ask is better than after.
What if the investigation finds nothing?
Then that is what the report says, and for a substantial share of clients that is the outcome they actually needed. A documented record showing someone doing exactly what they said they were doing ends a corrosive uncertainty that was going to damage the relationship on its own.
Any firm that promises to find something is promising an outcome it cannot control, and there is only one way to deliver on that promise.
How do I keep this discreet?
Contact us from a device the other party cannot reach, and do not discuss the engagement inside a space they can access. Under section 493.6119 of the Florida Statutes the contents of the file are confidential to the client.
Written by Joshua Goldberg, Florida private investigator license C3400073, owner of Insight Investigative Group, LLC, agency license A3400127, Bradenton, Florida.
Related: domestic investigations and surveillance services.
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