Helping family lawyers and adjacent professionals overcome fact chaos

Discovery in a family law matter is powerful. It is also, usually, chaos.

Because facts arrive in volume, in no order, from every direction at once: six years of bank statements, a shared drive of messages, three rounds of productions, a financial affidavit that does not quite reconcile with the tax returns, and a parenting chronology that lives mostly in your associate's head.

The facts that decide the matter are all in there. Income inconsistencies. Patterns in the parenting record. The credibility problem that only shows up when you line two documents up side by side. Finding them manually is possible. It is just expensive, slow, and impossible to do the same way twice.

That cost falls unevenly. For a well-resourced party, untangling a complex financial record is a line item. For an out-spouse, it can be the reason a genuine inequity never gets litigated at all.

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What changes when the facts are mapped once

Mary reads everything in the matter - disclosures, bank statements, communications, pleadings, productions - and builds a single structured record of it. Every key event, transaction, and communication is extracted, ordered, and linked back to the document and page it came from. Issues get tagged: financial inconsistencies, parenting concerns, safety issues, credibility problems.

You can see through the volume. The chronology exists before you start looking, so the question changes from "what is in these 4,000 pages" to "show me every reference to the second account."

Gaps become targets. Missing disclosures, incomplete statement periods, undocumented income, conflicting accounts, documents referenced but never produced - these are surfaced as gaps by Mary. Each one converts directly into a targeted document request, an interrogatory, or a letter to your client asking them to supplement.

You stop rebuilding the matter. Deposition outlines, mediation briefs, exhibit indexes, cross-examination materials: today each one is typically built by hand from the same underlying facts, by a different person, slightly differently. Built from one reviewed record, they are consistent with each other by default - and a new associate joining in month four starts from where the matter is, not from page one.

"In 10 minutes it took hundreds of pages of transcripts from a 28 day trial and synthesized my best points for closing argument, with direct links to the pages of the transcript and exhibits" - Partner, California.

The part that is usually hardest: the money

If discovery is where the hours go, complex financials are where the hours go and the outcome gets decided.

Four questions sit underneath most family law financial disputes, and Mary is built to answer all four from the documents themselves:

What they own. Every reference to real estate, investments, trusts, and business interests, mapped across correspondence, valuations, operating and shareholder agreements, and disclosures.

What they spend. Transactions categorized across accounts, cash and ATM withdrawals traced, spending patterns identified, and accounts that were never disclosed surfaced for follow-up. Every transaction indexed, cited to a page, and exportable — so a pattern you suspect becomes a schedule you can file.

What they earn. Salary, bonuses, deferred compensation, distributions, and variable pay found across tax returns, bonus letters and employment records, so a support hearing runs on the full income picture rather than the declared one.

What it is worth. Everything your forensic accountant needs, compiled across years of financial statements, tax filings, and corporate records. This is the step that routinely consumes weeks of paralegal time before your expert has even started. It should take hours.

That is also where a large share of the 70%+ time saving comes from. It is rarely one dramatic hour saved. It is the compounding of never having to assemble the same financial record twice.

Why you can rely on the record

Fact work is the part of law where being confidently wrong is worst, so the design rules matter more than the feature list.

Every conclusion stays connected to the evidence. Open any entry and inspect the original document and page behind it. If it is not in the documents, it is not in the output.

Ambiguity is preserved, not resolved. Competing accounts are not collapsed into one tidy answer. You see what is supported, what is disputed, and what is still unconfirmed — because in family law, the contradiction is often the point.

The attorney owns the record. Proposed changes stay pending until someone approves them. Mary maps the facts; the strategy and the legal judgment stay with you.

This is the real difference from general-purpose AI. General AI is built to work fluently with a fact layer it assumes is correct. Mary is built so you know whether that fact layer is complete and accurate before anything is built on top of it.

See it on a matter you recognize

The fastest way to judge any of this is on a matter type you already know - a high-asset property dispute, a contested support determination, a parenting matter with a messy communication record.

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