Family law runs on judgment. It also runs on hours of work that isn't judgment at all: pulling income details out of a T4, carrying new numbers into a support calculation, chasing the disclosure that hasn't arrived, updating the figures in a draft agreement for the third time. That work has to be done carefully — but it doesn't all have to be done by hand.
Today we're introducing Work with Assistant: a new tab in Divorcepath for professionals that turns Assistant from something you chat with into something you can delegate to.
Delegation, not automation
Assistant doesn't act on its own. Every task in the catalog opens a chat with the instruction already written — you review it, edit it if you like, and send it yourself. And every change to your data — a calculation, a document, a client's finances — comes back to you for approval before it happens. You stay the lawyer; Assistant does the legwork and shows its work.
That's the difference between automation and delegation. Automation runs without you. Delegation reports to you.
What you can hand off
Work with Assistant organizes real, multi-step jobs — the kind you'd give a capable junior — into a catalog you can launch in one click:
Support & property numbers. Attach a T4 or paystub; Assistant extracts the income, updates the client's finances, and refreshes the support calculation, showing you what changed before anything is saved. Get a support number straight from the profile, reconcile the property picture, or share a calculation with your client — after you approve the invite.
Finances & income. Turn bank statements and disclosure documents into updated finance records and a financial statement that's ready to swear. Build a monthly budget from what's on file. Find the mismatches between profile finances and calculations — and fix them.
Calculate child support, spousal support, and property division in minutes.
Documents & drafting. Respond to opposing counsel's redline: Assistant blacklines their draft against yours, summarizes every change, and drafts responses. Update agreement terms with tracked revisions. Refresh a document's figures from the latest numbers. Prepare a court form filled from the file.
Disclosure. See what's outstanding, draft the request letters, and have new disclosure checked for gaps, weak proof, and duplicates — with proposed next actions.
Clients & intake. Run a conflict search before you take the matter. Describe a new matter in plain language and get a file with the profile filled in. Chase stale interviews and merge completed answers.
File insight & follow-up. Ask for a status summary and the next three steps. Audit what changed on a file recently — and roll back mistakes.
Strategy & analysis. The highest-judgment work, delivered as analysis in chat: a settlement position bracketed by your calculations, a red-team of your own file the way opposing counsel would attack it, evidence red flags, a mediation brief, a dated chronology with every event tied to its source, and preparation for the difficult client conversation — talking points and an empathetic follow-up email anchored to what the numbers actually support.
Built for trust
Three design decisions run through everything:
1. You review before anything runs. Launching a task fills in the instruction; nothing is sent until you send it.
2. Approval before changes. Assistant asks before it modifies your data, and shows you exactly what will change.
3. Evaluated like it matters. Every workflow in the catalog is exercised end-to-end against a live environment as part of our engineering process — the same tasks you'll delegate, graded on whether they actually finish the job.
A calmer front door
Alongside Work with Assistant, professionals get a new Home: a privacy-safe landing page that shows your practice at a glance — counts, not client names — so you can open Divorcepath in a meeting or at the courthouse without your client list on screen. Your traditional tools are all there, organized by what you want to get done, with Work with Assistant one tab away.
Getting started
Sign in and you'll land on Home. Pick a client, choose a task — or open the Work with Assistant tab to see everything you can delegate. Start with something concrete: hand Assistant a T4 and watch it carry the number all the way through to the calculation. The strategy work will be there when you're ready for it.
Work with Assistant is rolling out now to Divorcepath professional workspaces. If you don't see it yet, your organization's administrator can enable Assistant in the app. As always: Assistant is AI and can make mistakes — review its work the way you'd review any junior's.
