Family law software for UK law firms hosted in the cloud

Family law practitioners provide support to individuals related to divorce, separation, child care, visitation rights, finance and property issues following relationship breakdowns.

Typically, family lawyers acting for a client seeking a divorce are involved in ascertaining initial details, gathering evidence such as financials and proof, negotiating settlements, and generally advocating for the client in hearings. Divorce and separation are often performed by mediation, which is the process by which families can negotiate with the help of an independent, professionally trained third party and reach agreements amicably. If mediation fails, the legal case will progress to court.

Legal software created for family law practitioners contains time-saving, efficiency-enhancing, profitability boosting functionality that guides solicitors, paralegals, cashiers and law firm managers through the tasks associated with divorce and separation – beginning with AML checking, proceeding with case workflow guidance and concluding with transfer of monies once an agreement has been reached. The potential to make mistakes is minimised throughout so that all of the associated risks are mitigated.

Yes. We know fixed fee arrangements are popular driven largely by client demand and applicable to family law in the same way as other legal specialisms. Plus, not everyone qualifies for legal aid. Many family law practitioners offer fixed fees for divorce and separation – a higher fee for petitioners (an individual starting divorce proceedings against his/her spouse) than for respondents (spouse issuing divorce proceedings against the individual).

Our software can help correctly estimate fixed fees to ensure your practice remains profitable. You can also use our tools to calculate standard costs per archetypal family law matter, progress through cases efficiently and speedily with minimum variability, and track estimated costs against incurred costs to inform future fee-setting decisions.

Absolutely. Our software can easily manage legal aid for any of your family law matters. If your client needs to use public funds to help to pay for legal advice, family mediation and court representation, then our software can handle the additional administration of this with automatic calculation of fees according to the latest legal aid rates and upload of data directly from Quill to the Legal Aid Agency’s online portal.

The Quill system itself comes with the ability to instantly switch on Microsoft Office integration thanks to our document management feature. Quill also integrates with the market-leading third-party systems Veriphy (for AML checking), FormEvo (for legal forms and e-submissions), Legl (for online payments) and Bundledocs (for document bundling).

Quill integrates fully with FormEvo which is a comprehensive library of legal forms and e-submissions. For relationship breakdowns, there’s an abundance of family law, divorce and children forms comprising the Form E financial statement, D8 application for a divorce / dissolution or (judicial) separation, D80 statements in support of divorce/dissolution/(judicial) separation for various reasons, C1 application for an order, C2 application for permission to start proceedings (Children Act 1989), C3 application for an order authorising search for a child (Family Law Act 1986) and myriad other familiar prescribed forms.

If property is involved and the family home needs to be sold, there’s also pre-contract, general, land charges, Land Registry, Law Society, property tax and supplemental forms with everything from Law Society property information (TA6) and fittings and contents (TA10), to Companies House particulars of a charge (MR01), to Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) (LBTT) and Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) forms.