Danny Lee Hormann suspected his wife was having an affair. So the 46-year-old Minnesota man installed spying software on his wife's cellphone and the family computer, and stuck a GPS device to her car, letting him follow her to a lakeside cabin one night. DPL-Surveillance-Equipment's layaway plan makes it easy for you to buy the products and services that you want by paying for them through manageable monthly payments that you set. Our intuitive calculator allows you to break down your order's purchase price into smaller payment amounts. Payments can be automatically deducted from your bank account or made in cash using MoneyGram® ExpressPayment® Services and you will receive your order once it's paid in full. Use it to plan and budget for holiday purchases, anniversaries, birthdays, vacations and more! "It was awful," says Michele Mathias, his 51-year-old ex-wife, who denies cheating on him. She says she was so worried about her husband's spying that she and her children searched their garage for cameras and held whispered conversations on the lawn in case he was recording indoors. "It wasn't just invasion of my privacy. It was an invasion of the privacy of everyone who ever texted me or anyone who was ever on my computer." The sleuthing got Mr. Hormann thrown in jail for 30 days, convicted of stalking his wife. "Whenever I tell people about this," Mr. Hormann said, "They say, 'I'd have done the same damn thing.' " He adds: "The technology just amazes me." Mr. Hormann's tactics reflect a new reality for suspicious spouses. Supplied by a tech industry that is making James Bond-like gadgets more affordable and easier to use, they are taking investigations into their own hands. Techniques once accessible only to governments or corporations are now trickling down to daily use. It's part of a broader transformation of modern privacy in which even the most personal spheres of people's lives—home, friendships, intimacy—can be exposed for examination without knowledge or consent. Lawyers say the technology is turning divorces into an arms race. Gerry Lane, a marriage counselor in Atlanta, says almost every infidelity case he sees started with a spying spouse. "If someone begins to have thoughts that they are being betrayed, they become obsessed with finding out the truth," Mr. Lane said. "Privacy does not exist in 2012." More than three dozen people interviewed, including family lawyers, prosecutors, private investigators, gadget retailers and marriage counselors, as well as individuals who have gone through divorces themselves, said that spouses are embracing snooping technology. A February report by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that 92% of lawyers surveyed had seen an increase in evidence from smartphones the past three years, citing in particular text messages, emails, call histories and GPS location information. The legality of spousal spying is complicated. Not all courts agree on what constitutes a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in a marriage. if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('66f56d16-759e-496f-bc83-6083e68c5e3d'); Get the <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/surveillance-and-security-video-library">Surveillance and Security Video Library</a> widget and many other <a href="http://www.widg