Build client-facing divorce tools with AI instead of spreadsheets
Family-law trainer Stephen Smith built four working tools with AI, one conversation each: a settlement schedule that shows a client how much of an $8,000,000 award is actually spendable and when, a two-sided case chronology with exhibit links, a parenting-time calculator that counts overnights and percentages, and a case-path timeline clients get at the first meeting. The examples use training data, and he warns that the AI wrote the math, so every number must be checked before a client relies on it.
How it works
- Ask the AI to build the document as a tool the client can use, not a document they read
- Settlement schedule: assets split by how fast they become spendable, with checkboxes and growth/spending sliders that recalculate live
- Case chronology: two-sided timeline, filterable by thread, every entry tied to an exhibit
- Parenting-time calculator: pick a rotation, nights counted and percentages shown, exportable to PDF
- Case-path timeline: phases rescale by likely path, hatched bars show what the client must do
- Each of the four built in a single conversation, no developer
Why it’s worth knowing
The tools answer the client's real question — how much can I actually spend, and which bars on this chart are mine — instead of restating the legal document.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on smithstephen.com. See the original ↗