MikeA legal AI workspace for family law firms
Family law firms use Mike to read financial disclosures, statements and parenting records, build asset and income tables, and draft settlement agreements and motions from the client file. Every figure Mike reports links to the page it came from, so an attorney can check the record in one click.
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Attorney: Compare the husband's financial affidavit with his bank statements and list any income or accounts not disclosed. Then draft the support section of our position letter.
Mike: The affidavit lists one checking account and one source of monthly income [1], but the statements show a second account receiving regular deposits from Okafor Design [2], and the tax return reports consulting income not on the affidavit [3]. I drafted the support section of the letter and noted the second account.
- [1] Financial affidavit, p. 2
- [2] Harbor Credit Union statements, pp. 4 to 19
- [3] Joint tax return, Schedule C, p. 6
Mike created Okafor position letter, support.docx.
Example matter. Names and documents are fictional.
A divorce or custody matter is a pile of personal paper: tax returns, pay stubs, account statements, texts, school records, prior orders. Clients bring it in boxes and screenshots. Mike reads it the way a careful paralegal would, pulls the numbers and dates that matter, and flags what is missing or does not add up.
Cuanto Labs loads your petitions, settlement agreements and discovery checklists into Mike and connects it to the folders where client files sit. Tax returns, account records and parenting records stay within your firm's own installation.
What Mike does for your practice
- Financial disclosure review
- Mike reads both parties' sworn financial statements, tax returns and account records, and builds a table of income, expenses, assets and debts with each figure linked to its source page. Differences between a statement and the underlying documents are flagged for the attorney.
- Marital property and tracing tables
- Use Tabular Review to pull dates, balances, titles and account holders from every statement and deed in a file. Attorneys use the sortable table to sort property by when and how it was acquired before they build the schedule.
- Settlement agreement drafts
- Ask for the property division or support section and Mike drafts it in your firm's template from the terms the client has approved and the figures in the file. The draft is a Word document, and revisions come back as tracked changes.
- Custody and parenting timelines
- Mike reads messages, school and medical records and prior orders, and builds a dated timeline of exchanges, missed visits and incidents, with a source for each entry, so a motion or a mediation brief starts from the record.
- Support and modification research
- Mike searches case law through CourtListener on the questions your matter turns on, such as imputed income or changed circumstances, reads the opinions, and checks each case citation against CourtListener.
- Discovery response preparation
- Mike compares a client's draft interrogatory answers with the documents in the file and lists statements the documents do not support, so corrections are made before the responses are signed.
How we set it up for your firm
- Financial affidavit columns
- We build a Tabular Review template that pulls the same fields from every statement, pay stub and return, so a client's boxes of paper become one sortable table.
- Settlement agreement sections
- We load your marital settlement agreement, parenting plan and motion forms, broken into the sections you draft separately, such as property division and support.
- Discovery response checklist
- We save a workflow that compares a client's draft interrogatory answers against the file and lists unsupported statements.
- Parenting timeline workflow
- We set up a workflow that builds a dated timeline of exchanges and incidents from messages, school and medical records, in the layout your mediation briefs use.
- Local rules and standing orders
- We add the local rules and standing orders for the courts where you appear to the matter folders, so drafts can be checked against them.
Questions attorneys ask
Can Mike read clients' screenshots and scanned statements?
Mike reads scanned documents once they have been through text recognition, which we set up as part of your installation. Clean statements read best. Photos of text messages work when the text is legible, and Mike tells you when a page could not be read instead of guessing, so those pages can go to a person.
Can Mike separate marital from separate property?
Mike pulls dates, balances, titles and account holders from every statement and deed into one table, which attorneys sort by when and how each asset was acquired. Deciding which assets are marital, and how to trace commingled funds, is a legal judgment for the attorney. Mike marks months it could not find, because gaps matter in tracing.
Will Mike calculate support or divide property?
Mike pulls the figures from the documents and puts them in tables, and it can draft language from terms you give it. Calculations under your state's guidelines, and any decision about what is fair for the client, stay with the attorney. Every number links to its source page so it can be checked.
Can Mike catch inconsistent interrogatory answers?
Give it the draft answers and the file. Mike compares each statement, such as stated income, assets and the date of separation, with the documents and lists those it cannot support, with the page that conflicts. The client and attorney then correct the draft before it is signed under oath. Mike does not file or serve anything.
Can paralegals and assistants use it?
Yes. Your administrator invites each person and sets who can see which matters. Staff commonly use Mike to organize financial documents and build first drafts of schedules and discovery responses for an attorney to review. Training for attorneys and staff is part of the setup. Attorneys keep control of what is filed and sent, and each person sees only the matters they are invited to.
Does Mike verify the case law it finds on support?
Mike searches case law through CourtListener and checks each case citation against CourtListener before it appears in an answer. Statutes, guidelines and local rules are outside that check. They come from the materials your firm adds during setup, and the attorney confirms them against the current text.
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