Practice system
Family Law, run as a system.
Divorce, custody, support, adoption: disclosure-driven with children's schedules at the centre.
Mandatory financial disclosure and the parenting calendar. Uniquely, the matter's most important facts are recurring schedules, not one-time dates.
Stage
Children
2, ages 6 & 9
Disclosure due
14d
Waiting period ends
Jun 30
Computed: Support & Division Estimate
Guideline support figure plus a marital-estate split snapshot, labeled estimate: attorney to verify.
Posture
One question decides how the whole matter reads.
Do we represent the petitioner or the respondent?
What it tracks
The documents this practice actually produces.
Petition & response
Financial declarations
Parenting plan
Support worksheets
Settlement agreement / MSA
Computed
Support & Division Estimate
Guideline support figure plus a marital-estate split snapshot, labeled estimate: attorney to verify.
Opening checklist
What starts moving on day one.
- Conflicts incl. prior representation of either spouse
- Jurisdiction/residency requirement confirmed
- Safety screening for DV indicators
- Calendar disclosure deadlines
- Client financial-disclosure packet issued
Questions
Before you book the call.
- Do you build a matter management system specifically for family law practices?
- Yes. It runs on the same MATTER Method as everything else I build, configured for how family law actually moves: Mandatory financial disclosure and the parenting calendar. Uniquely, the matter's most important facts are recurring schedules, not one-time dates.
- What does the system actually track for a family law matter?
- Every stage from petition to post-decree, the facts that matter most for this practice (children, disclosure due, waiting period ends), the document set the matter actually produces, and one computed read: support & division estimate, guideline support figure plus a marital-estate split snapshot, labeled estimate: attorney to verify.
- Can I get this through MatterOS, or does it need a custom build?
- Both. It ships as a configured practice pack inside MatterOS for solo and small-firm workflows, or as a private, purpose-built system when a firm needs more control over data, integrations or workflow. Either way, we start with a short call to see which fits.
- Do you also handle litigation technology and expert witness work for these matters?
- Separately, yes, under the same practice. If a matter needs digital evidence structured or presented in a US courtroom rather than just tracked, that is the second half of what I do. See the Services page for how that engagement runs.
Take it home
Don't want a build engagement yet? Take the blueprint.
Family Law is one of the twenty-two packs inside Practice Pack Blueprints, the stages, vitals, deadline logic and document set for this practice, ready to install yourself. Two minutes on the readiness audit will tell you honestly whether that's enough, or whether this practice needs the full build.
Bring me the family law matter. I've probably built this before.