What It Does

Each person answers on their own. A question shows the other person’s choice only once you have made your own, because seeing theirs first anchors yours. Where you differ, the app says so plainly and offers the compromise hint if it has one. Where you agree, one person proposes a resolution and the other confirms it. Neither of you can do both halves.

Every question carries why it matters, a citation to the actual rule where one exists, and what happens if you never decide, which is usually the most useful line on the page.

Questions are also triaged by what they need before they can be answered: most want nothing but an opinion, and the rest say whether they are waiting on a document, on a decision you have not made yet, or on an actual advisor. A question you cannot answer reads as a fact about the process rather than something you are behind on.

Child support under the New York CSSA, spousal maintenance run in both directions, the marital portion of a retirement account, a separate-property house claim, and a running ledger of who has paid what. Every figure is computed by a pure function with its own test vectors. The interface never does arithmetic.

Each person keeps a private budget that feeds the shared support worksheet without exposing its line items, until they choose to share it. Personal spending is the opposite: readable by both, writable only by its owner, because during a separation “where is the money going” is a fair question in both directions.

A parenting plan and a financial settlement, written as markdown with tokens where the decisions go. When a question resolves, the clause fills. When a worksheet figure changes, the number changes with it. Manual blanks, the dates and addresses no algorithm can supply, are tracked separately and counted so you can see how close the document is to finished.

Alongside them is a checklist of the documents a matter actually needs, from the mortgage balance on a specific date to both credit reports, with the ones still missing named rather than implied.

A regular pattern, holidays, summer, and a right of first refusal. Swap requests are proposed by one person and accepted by the other, never assumed. The calendar exports as a subscribable feed so it lands in whatever app each of you already uses instead of asking you to adopt a new one.

Every shared account, card, autopay, utility, title and beneficiary designation, each moving through four states: we know it exists, we have agreed what happens to it, someone did it, the other person checked. The person who did a thing cannot be the person who verifies it, and the database enforces that.

Items that must happen before a matrimonial action is filed are flagged and sorted first. Beneficiary designations freeze once proceedings begin, so that ordering is not a preference.