The Night Owls and our licensed private investigators come from all walks of life, harboring a multitude of skills and strengths. 30+ years of experience behind us to accumulate a record trail of exceptional investigation services.
Our staff is committed to discretion, detail, and knowledge – assuring that your expectations are not only met, but go beyond measure in order to deliver the results you deserve. Each case is sheltered in 100% confidentiality with daily updates as each crevice of your case unfolds.
What do you do when the people you should trust most are the ones you’ve started to doubt?
Maybe it’s a spouse or partner. Maybe it’s someone else living under your roof, or working in your home. And maybe what you suspect is infidelity — or something more serious: misconduct, criminal activity, harm to a child.
These are not fears you can sit with indefinitely. When the suspicion is about someone in your own household, not knowing isn’t neutral — it corrodes everything. In situations like these, it isn’t just better to know. It’s necessary.
That certainty is exactly what a marital or domestic surveillance investigation is built to deliver.
A licensed Miami private investigator can put trained personnel on stakeout and surveillance, observing discreetly and documenting what’s actually happening — with photographic and video evidence rather than assumption.
The Night Owls Agency has handled marital and domestic surveillance since 1988. We have the equipment, the experience, and the patience this work demands: observing from a safe distance and documenting the conduct of a straying spouse, a family member who isn’t being honest, or domestic staff who’ve abused their access to your home.
Our methods are ethical and lawful, and they’re designed with the end in mind — evidence that holds up if your case reaches a Florida courtroom. Domestic assignments are delicate by definition. Discretion isn’t a selling point here; it’s the whole job. The last thing anyone needs in a situation this fragile is an investigator who makes a bad situation worse.
We know what we’re doing. What you’ll get from us is the truth.
Domestic suspicion rarely arrives all at once. It builds — a changed routine, a phone that’s suddenly guarded, money that doesn’t add up, a story that doesn’t hold together. By the time most people call an investigator, they’ve spent weeks or months trying to talk themselves out of what they already sense. The situations we’re most often asked to look into include:
Suspected infidelity. The most common reason clients call, and often the hardest to confirm alone, because a partner who’s hiding something is usually careful. Surveillance documents where someone actually goes, who they actually see, and how those facts line up against what they’ve told you.
Concerns about a child’s safety. When a co-parent, a new partner in the household, a nanny, or a babysitter is behaving in a way that worries you, documentation matters — both for your own peace of mind and for any action you may need to take.
Dishonest household staff. Domestic employees are given extraordinary access to your home, your belongings, and your family. When theft, dishonesty, or misconduct is suspected, discreet observation can establish what’s happening without a false accusation blowing up a working relationship you may want to keep.
Hidden behavior by a spouse or family member. Substance abuse, gambling, undisclosed financial activity, secret associations — the kinds of patterns that affect a family’s stability and that a family member has strong incentive to conceal.
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what this work looks like, most of it from television. The reality is more disciplined and far less dramatic.
Observation from lawful vantage points. Our investigators watch and document from public spaces or other lawful positions — never by trespassing, never by entering a home uninvited. What can be seen from where the law allows us to be is a great deal more than most people expect.
Time-stamped documentation. Photographs and video carry weight precisely because they’re dated, continuous, and hard to dispute. A written surveillance log establishes a timeline: who went where, when, for how long, and with whom.
Patient, sustained coverage. A single afternoon rarely tells the story. What reveals the truth is pattern — the routine that repeats, the stop that happens every Thursday, the second address nobody mentioned. Building that picture takes time, and sometimes more than one investigator.
Discretion above all. In domestic work, being noticed doesn’t just compromise the investigation — it can escalate an already volatile home situation. Everything we do is built around remaining invisible to the subject.
Here’s something that catches well-meaning people constantly: Florida is an all-party consent state for recording private conversations. Under Florida Statute 934.03, recording a conversation that someone has a reasonable expectation of privacy in — without the consent of everyone involved — is a crime, not just an inadmissible piece of evidence.
This is the single most common way people damage their own domestic cases. A spouse plants a recorder, or secretly records a phone call, or puts a listening device in a shared car, believing they’re gathering proof. Instead they’ve committed a criminal act, produced evidence a court will refuse, and handed the other side a genuine grievance against them.
A licensed investigator understands exactly where these lines fall. Visual surveillance of activity in public is lawful. Illegally intercepting private communications is not. Part of what you’re paying for is someone who knows the difference and keeps your case clean — so that when it counts, your evidence stands up instead of collapsing.
Florida is a no-fault divorce state, which surprises people who assume proof of an affair automatically changes a divorce outcome. It usually doesn’t, on its own. But that doesn’t make domestic evidence irrelevant — far from it.
Documented conduct can matter significantly to time-sharing and parenting decisions when a child’s welfare is involved. It can bear on the financial side of a case, particularly where marital assets are being spent on an affair or concealed entirely. And in matters that reach beyond divorce — protective orders, custody disputes, questions of a household member’s criminal conduct — objective, professionally gathered documentation is often the difference between being believed and being dismissed.
The right move is to coordinate with your attorney about what evidence would actually advance your specific situation, so the investigation targets what’s useful rather than gathering everything indiscriminately.
Domestic investigations are, by their nature, emotionally charged and occasionally dangerous. We take that seriously.
Case information is shared only with you and anyone you explicitly authorize. If your situation involves any risk of violence or escalation, that shapes how we work and what we advise, and we’ll coordinate with your attorney or with law enforcement where circumstances call for it. Our purpose is to get you the truth without making an already painful situation worse.
Can a private investigator confirm whether my spouse is cheating? Yes. Surveillance and documentation are exactly suited to establishing where someone goes and who they’re with, and comparing that against what you’ve been told.
Is what you gather usable in a Florida court? When it’s collected lawfully, yes. That’s the reason method matters so much — evidence gathered the wrong way can be thrown out or even expose you to liability. Everything we do is built to hold up.
Will my spouse or household member find out I hired someone? Discretion is the core of this work. Our investigators operate to remain unnoticed, and your involvement stays confidential.
Can’t I just record them or track them myself? This is where people get into serious trouble. Florida’s recording laws and restrictions on tracking devices are strict, and a well-intentioned mistake can become a crime that damages your own case. Talk to a professional before you do anything you can’t undo.
How long does an investigation take? It depends on what you need established. Confirming a specific suspicion can take days; documenting a full pattern of behavior can take longer. We’ll give you a realistic estimate up front.
It’s far wiser, in the long run, to bring in a licensed professional than to try to gather proof yourself and risk making everything worse. The Night Owls Agency’s Miami investigators have the equipment, the experience, and the discretion these situations demand — and a clear understanding of how to gather evidence that actually helps you.
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