For The Record

Stephen Nixon, a family-law attorney in Fort Walton Beach, had become thoroughly familiar with problems inherent in dealing with co-parenting disputes.

“It was difficult to determine who said what and when,” Nixon said. “I would spend days combing through printouts of emails, texts and social media messages looking for some sort of record, then spend more time trying to determine their legitimacy. It occurred to me that lawyers, co-parents and court representatives were wasting an incredible amount of time. There had to be a better way.”

Thanks to Nixon’s ingenuity, there was.

In 2009, Nixon launched TalkingParents.com, a service for improving and storing communications between co-parents that would provide an indisputable, unalterable record for use in the courtroom.

But Nixon’s website, while functioning, wasn’t “finished.”

“To be an actual enterprise-level business, I knew TalkingParents needed a proper website,” Nixon said. “It needed apps; it needed marketing — things you’d typically have to go to Silicon Valley to find.”