How to Automate Family Law Software

A divorce is a spreadsheet before it is an agreement

Family Law Software has been in use since 1996, and the people in it are family law attorneys, mediators, CPAs and the divorce financial analysts who work alongside them. It runs as a Cloud Edition in a browser, and as desktop editions for Windows and Mac.

What it holds is a household being taken apart. Both incomes. The house, the mortgage and what is left after selling it. The retirement accounts, and the part of each that was earned before the marriage. The business one spouse runs. What the children cost now and what they will cost at eighteen.

Out of that come the documents the case actually turns on: the state financial affidavit, the child and spousal support calculation, the property division, and the budget showing what each party lives on afterwards, after tax. Every one of those is read by a judge, a mediator, or a client deciding whether to sign.

The client's paperwork arrives in pieces and late

The analysis is the skilled part, and it is not what fills the week.

The week goes on documents. Three years of tax returns. Recent pay stubs. Bank statements for accounts the client half remembers. The retirement balance, which is on a recordkeeper's site nobody has signed into since the job started. The mortgage payoff, which belongs to a servicer. A pension that needs a summary plan description before it can be valued at all. The business profit and loss.

So a paralegal emails the client a list. Some of it comes back. A statement arrives as a photograph of a screen, taken at an angle. One account is missing entirely, and nobody notices until the affidavit is being finished the night before it is due.

The same chase is running on the other side, whose production is late too, and the mediation date does not move for either of you.

Client Data Entry only helps once the client has the statement

The software already removes a good deal of the retyping, and a firm should use all of it before looking further.

Client Data Entry lets the client fill in income, expenses and assets online, and what they enter flows into the forms the professional works from rather than being keyed twice. The state financial affidavits and the child and spousal support calculations are maintained per state, so the arithmetic and the format are not a firm's problem. The Property Division screen splits assets on an after-tax basis, which is the only basis that means anything when one party takes the house and the other takes the retirement account. The Budget Report shows both households after tax. What If lets you test an alternative without touching the real numbers. There are defined benefit pension valuations, arrears calculations, projections running out decades, and reports and graphs to put in front of a client.

All of it starts from a figure somebody has already obtained. The recordkeeper, the servicer, the carrier and the brokerage each hold one, behind a login, and the software has no way to go and ask.

Every balance in the property division can be this month's

Suppose the fetching happened before anyone asked for it.

The required document list checked each morning against what has actually arrived in the shared folder, so the reminder that goes to a client names the two missing statements instead of asking again for everything. Retirement balances read off the recordkeeper's own site in the week before mediation, so the property division is argued on this month's figures rather than the ones disclosed in March. The mortgage payoff from the servicer, which every conversation about the house depends on and which nobody refreshes.

Then the tracking that only happens when somebody remembers. Pension and business valuation requests listed with how long each expert has had them. Affidavits still carrying blank required fields, found two days before the filing date instead of the night before. A new settlement offer landing and the comparison against the previous one already built when the partner opens the file. Referred cases whose referring attorney has heard nothing in six weeks.

Chasing a mortgage statement is not legal work

Every balance carried by hand from a website into a case file is an hour billed at a rate that makes the invoice awkward to explain. It is not advice and it is not advocacy.

WebRun is an AI agent that works a real Chrome browser, signed in as you. It opens Family Law Software the way your paralegal does, opens the servicer, the recordkeeper or the shared document folder beside it, and brings the figures back with the matter already attached.

What it will not do is advise. Calculations, settlement scenarios and anything a client, a mediator or the other side will read are prepared and left for the attorney or the analyst whose name goes on them.

Each workflow below names what it opens and what it brings back.