AI for family law attorneys
Ultramarine Work drafts the parenting plan and the motion for temporary orders, builds the marital balance sheet and traces the money that left the accounts. It works from the affidavits, statements and filings already in your case folder.
Parenting-plan-Halloran.docxExampleProposed Parenting Plan
1. Residential schedule
The children, ages 4 and 7, follow a 2-2-5-5 schedule. Mother has every Monday and Tuesday, Father has every Wednesday and Thursday, and the parents alternate Friday through Sunday, so each parent has five days in a row every other week. Exchanges happen at school or daycare drop-off, or at 6:00 p.m. at the Lakeview Library when there is no school.
2. Holidays and special days
The holiday schedule overrides the residential schedule. Mother has Thanksgiving in even years and Father in odd years, and winter break is divided at noon on December 26. Mother has Mother’s Day weekend and Father has Father’s Day weekend, each from Friday at 6:00 p.m. to Sunday at 6:00 p.m.
CheckedIntake notes say the 7-year-old’s school ends at 3:10 p.m. Confirm exchange times with the client.
How it works
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Everything in the matter file
The folder holds both financial affidavits, pay stubs, tax returns, bank and card statements, the closely held business’s ledgers and Schedule C, retirement statements, the filings served so far, the prenup and your county’s forms.
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Ask for the document
Name the document and the facts: the 2-2-5-5 plan, the tracing period, the affidavit to check. Each workbook or draft cites the source file and page for its figures and notes what it could not reconcile.
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Verify before it leaves
You check the characterizations and the worksheet inputs against the statements, correct what is wrong and decide what reaches the client call, the mediator or the court.
Ask it for
“Run conflicts on the new caller before I call her back: her maiden and married names, the spouse, his LLC and the guardian ad litem, against the matter list.”
Conflicts-check-Fournier.xlsx“Draft the parenting plan for two children, 4 and 7, from the intake notes: 2-2-5-5 schedule, alternating holidays, and tally the overnights for the worksheet.”
Parenting-plan-Halloran.docx“Build the marital balance sheet from both financial affidavits: assets characterized as marital or separate, valuations with sources, disputed lines flagged.”
Marital-balance-sheet-Halloran.xlsx“Trace every transfer out of brokerage account 4471 to the respondent’s brother from February 2024 to the separation and build the source-and-use schedule.”
Trace-4471-transfers.xlsx“Draft the motion for temporary child support and fees with the client’s updated financial affidavit, the notice of hearing and the proposed order.”
Motion-temporary-relief.docx“Compare the respondent’s financial affidavit to his 2022-2024 tax returns and credit card statements and list every line that does not tie, with the page.”
Affidavit-variances-2022-2024.xlsx
Inside the Family Law mode
Divorce custody and support
It drafts the petition, temporary orders package and parenting plan, prepares the financial affidavit and guideline worksheet, and builds the settlement terms.
Funds tracing and reconstruction
Tracing starts with bank-deposit analysis against reported income, then follows transfers to relatives and shareholder loans into source-and-use schedules.
Client intake conflicts and engagement
At intake it screens name variants, the spouse’s LLC and the consultations that never became clients, then drafts the engagement or non-engagement letter.
Legal billing and trust accounting
It runs the three-way IOLTA reconciliation, bank statement to trust ledger to client ledgers, and tracks retainers and flat fees held until earned.
Pleadings and motions
The motion, its notice, the supporting affidavit and the proposed order go into one package, checked against the county’s standing orders.
Court filing and docketing
Docketing counts response dates, exhibit-list deadlines and the 45 days from service for mandatory disclosure, and notes the rule beside each entry.
Discovery and depositions
It covers interrogatories and document requests aimed at the closely held business, employer and bank subpoenas, deficiency letters and deposition outlines.
Litigation support
Litigation support builds chronologies from texts and emails, witness summaries and a variance schedule that compares the affidavit with the statements.
Demand letters and settlement
For settlement it writes the mediation statement, a costed position on each issue and the releases that unwind transfers to a relative or an LLC.
Trial preparation and exhibits
Bench trials are the norm, so this work is witness and exhibit lists, pretrial disclosures, motions in limine and financial exhibits for the trial notebook.
Legal memos and briefs
Memos cover the UCCJEA jurisdiction fight, relocation standards, spousal support factors and modifications, plus the statements of fact the motions need.
Legal authority verification
It checks every case, statute and rule it relies on and flags what it cannot confirm, so a case that doesn’t come up in any reporter stops at the draft.
- Office skills
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF
- Tools
- Read, edit and write files, Search files, Run code, Search and read the web, View images
- Connectors
- SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, and additional custom connectors
- House style
- Your fonts, layouts and rules, on every file
Who it’s for
Divorce, custody and support lawyers and family law paralegals in firms and legal aid, and IV-D child support attorneys.
Questions
Will it cite cases that don’t exist?
No, nothing reaches a draft unverified, but you never take its citations on faith either. The mode instructs it to verify every case, statute and rule it relies on, to flag what it cannot confirm and to state what it could not find instead of inventing authority. You review every file it touched before anything goes out, which is exactly the step the lawyers sanctioned for fabricated citations skipped.
Do we need the client’s informed consent before her financial records go in?
Yes, that is the position to start from, because her financial records are exactly what Rule 1.6 protects. Content the model works on goes to Paper Instruments’ servers to be processed, and our security and compliance details are on our compliance page. How that fits Rule 1.6 and the informed-consent process ABA Formal Opinion 512 describes is a call for you and your firm’s compliance process, made before the first affidavit goes into the folder.
Where does our data go?
Ultramarine Work changes files only in the project’s folder. When a request needs it, it can read files elsewhere on your computer, never passwords, keys or app data, and you can turn that off in settings. The model runs on Paper Instruments’ servers, so the content it works on is sent there to be processed. Paper Instruments is SOC 2 Type II, and our security and compliance details are on our compliance page.
Which state’s forms, rules and worksheets does it follow?
It follows the forms and rules you put in the folder. Drop in the local rules, the standing orders, your county’s financial affidavit forms and the current guideline worksheet, or name the state in the request, and it drafts and calculates against them. The right form turns on the facts: service, children and parentage. Courts also revise forms mid-year, so confirm the current version before the hearing.
Can I trust its child support worksheet numbers?
Yes, for the arithmetic, because it computes the worksheet from inputs it shows in full: gross income, add-ons, overnights and imputation figures, each tied to the affidavit or statement it came from. Check those inputs against the statute and the record before you rely on the number, because the worksheet you file goes in under your signature. The deviation argument and the figure you defend in court stay with you.