Family lawyer software for disclosures, drafts and timelines
Family law runs on paper and on emotion. A divorce file collects years of bank statements, tax returns, pay stubs and retirement statements, while the client wants to know what happens with the house and the children next week. Jural organizes the financial disclosures, drafts parenting plans and settlement terms from your firm templates, and builds the chronology of the marriage and the dispute, so you spend your time on judgment and the client instead of on sorting PDFs.
Where the hours go in a family law matter
Opposing counsel produces four hundred pages of financial records in a single scan with no index. Your client sends forty photos of documents from a phone. The financial affidavit has to reconcile with all of it, and the numbers on the monthly expenses page rarely match the bank statements on the first pass. Meanwhile the parenting plan goes through three rounds of revisions, the settlement draft borrows clauses from an old matter, and the timeline of separation, moves and incidents lives in a long email from the client.
The legal questions are the reason you went into family law. The sorting, re-typing and cross-checking are where the unbilled evenings come from.
How Jural handles each job
- Financial disclosures. Upload statements, tax returns, W-2s, pay stubs and retirement account statements, including scans. Legal document analysis software reads each document and organizes it by account, period and type, then summarizes balances, deposits and recurring payments with a page reference for every figure.
- Gaps and inconsistencies. Ask which months are missing for an account, or where the stated income differs from the deposits, and get answers that point to the page.
- Parenting plans and settlement drafts. Legal document automation software fills your own parenting plan, marital settlement agreement and stipulation templates with the matter facts: names, children, schedules, accounts and property. Your clause choices stay yours.
- Chronology. Case chronology software builds a dated timeline from the file, including the date of marriage, separation, moves, filings and incidents, each with the source document and page, and flags where two documents disagree.
- Intake and conflicts. Your family law intake form collects both spouses, children, prior counsel and related names. Legal intake software creates the matter, and law firm conflict check software searches every name, which matters in a practice where the other spouse may have called your office first.
- Deadlines. Hearing dates, disclosure deadlines and response dates found in orders and notices go on the matter calendar through legal calendaring software, each waiting for your confirmation.
From first consultation to settlement draft
- Send the intake form for a dissolution matter. Jural creates the matter with both parties, the children and related names.
- Run the conflict search on the opposing spouse, any new partner, family members and businesses named in intake. Sign off the report before you engage.
- Upload the financial records from both sides as they arrive. Jural sorts them by account and period and lists what is missing.
- Ask for a summary of each account across the statement period, with deposits, transfers and recurring payments, each linked to the page.
- Check the client's financial affidavit against the organized records and note every difference for the client meeting.
- Review the chronology Jural built from the file and correct any event the client remembers differently.
- Generate the parenting plan and settlement draft from your templates, edit the terms, and export DOCX with tracked changes for the next round with opposing counsel.
What stays with you
Jural supports lawyers and does not give legal advice. It does not decide what is marital or separate property, how support should be calculated in your state, or what parenting schedule serves the children. Those calls are yours. Every summary, figure and draft is a draft for attorney review, with the source page shown so you can verify it. Deadlines from orders and notices must be confirmed by an attorney, because Jural does not replace court rules calendaring review.
Family files hold some of the most sensitive information a firm keeps. Client documents are never used to train AI models, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, per-matter access walls limit who sees a file, and the activity log records every action. More at confidential AI for law firms.
Which plan fits a family law practice
A solo family lawyer or a two-person office fits Solo at $24 per user per month billed yearly ($288 per user per year), or $49 month to month, with 1 000 analysed pages per user per month. Financial disclosures are page-heavy, so a firm of three or more usually fits Firm at $49 per user per month billed yearly ($588 per user per year), or $99 month to month, with 3 000 pages per user per month, shared templates and per-matter walls. Yearly billing saves 50 percent. Usage counts consumption in the billing period. Compare plans on AI legal assistant pricing.
FAQ
Yes, scans are processed with OCR, and every figure Jural reports links back to the page it came from.
No, Jural organizes the income and expense records you need, and the support calculation under your state guidelines stays with you.
Yes, drafts start from the templates and clauses you upload, so the language is your firm's.
Yes, a per-matter access wall limits the file, drafts and search results to the people you choose.
Spend the evenings on the case, not the statements
Upload a document on the homepage to see how Jural reads it, then open your first family law matter.
Your documents are never used to train AI models. Every result is a draft for attorney review.