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Public Access Terminals

Public Access Family Law Calculations for Your Library or Courthouse

Visitors arrive without a lawyer and leave with court-ready financial statements and support calculations. You expand the access-to-justice service you already provide; Divorcepath handles the calculations, forms, and intake.

Deployed across 102 public workstations at Courthouse Libraries BC
A public-workstation monitor with a guided intake card on its screen, set against faint architectural columns suggesting a library or courthouse, with a teal arrow flowing rightward into a court-ready financial-statement silhouette.

An access-to-justice partnership

Most family law walk-ins at a public workstation leave without the form they came for. Divorcepath fills the gap.

What your library or courthouse already provides

You bring the public infrastructure

  • Public workstations already deployed and supported
  • Walk-in patrons asking how to start a separation or divorce
  • A trusted institutional setting where people show up
  • Staff who triage and direct — but cannot give legal advice
What Divorcepath provides

We bring the family law machinery

  • Guided family law intake — income, children, parenting time only
  • Federal Child Support Guideline calculations across all 13 provinces and territories
  • Spousal Support Advisory Guideline ranges with tax impact
  • Court-ready financial-statement forms for Ontario, BC, and Alberta
  • Privacy-by-default sessions on shared terminals
  • Per-terminal license & ongoing institutional support
102Public workstations deployed at CL BC
30Branches across British Columbia
13Provinces & territories supported
300+Canadian family law firms also on the platform

The walk-in experience

A guided wizard takes the patron from a blank page to a court-ready output — whether that's a quick support calculation or a full financial-statement form.

Patron chooses what to create

Support calculation, financial-statement form, separation agreement, or property division — the patron picks the output they need at the start of the session.

Guided wizard collects only what's needed

The wizard asks only the questions relevant to the chosen output. About 5–10 minutes for a support calculation; 15–30 minutes for a complete financial-statement form. Federal Guidelines and SSAG are applied automatically.

Court-ready output

Calculation report, court financial statement, draft agreement, or property breakdown. Download as PDF or print directly from the workstation, then sign out — the session clears.

Built for shared public use

Three decisions that make Divorcepath a fit for any public workstation.

Browser-only, no install

Runs on any public workstation regardless of OS or device specs. No software to install, no admin rights to manage, no version drift across your branches.

Privacy-by-default

Sessions auto-clear when the patron is done. Saved profile information, documents, and calculations are all deleted — nothing is left on the shared workstation for the next user.

Provincial coverage

Federal Child Support and Spousal Support Advisory Guideline calculations work in all 13 provinces and territories. Court forms are currently in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta, with more in development.

What your patrons leave with

Court-ready calculations and forms — not a printed FAQ.

Court-ready provincial financial-statement form preview
Court-ready financial statement

Provincial financial-statement forms for Ontario, BC, and Alberta — the form wizard walks the patron through every required field, ~15–30 minutes end to end.

Child support calculation breakdown
Child support calculation

Federal Child Support Guidelines table support for all 13 provinces and territories, with breakdowns for sole, shared, and split parenting arrangements. ~5–10 minutes.

Spousal support SSAG calculation
Spousal support (SSAG) ranges

Low / mid / high outcomes with full tax impact, INDI percentages, and lump-sum present-value equivalents. ~5–10 minutes.

Property division equalization calculator
Property division equalization

Net Family Property and equalization payment calculations under provincial property regimes. ~10–20 minutes depending on asset complexity.

Divorcepath institutional dashboard for libraries showing usage and client matters

What your institution sees

The library-side view lets your team monitor terminal activity at a glance — total sessions, generated documents, jurisdictional breakdown — without ever seeing patron-identifying details.

  • Aggregate usage analytics across your branches
  • Document and calculation generation counts by location
  • Provincial and form-type breakdowns for reporting
  • No patron-level personally identifying information

Case study: Courthouse Libraries BC

First institutional deployment proving public-access scale across a provincial library system.

Institutional Partner

We selected Divorcepath to provide access to family law tools across all 30 of our library branches in British Columbia — 102 public workstations serving thousands of British Columbians navigating separation and divorce.

How a deployment rolls out

A short pilot proves the fit before any large rollout.

Discovery call

Branches, terminal count, jurisdiction, and security review needs.

Security review

Trust Centre walkthrough, deployment plan, data-residency confirmation.

Rollout

Coverage across your locations with launch-day support. An optional pilot at one or two branches is available if your governance benefits from a short proof window first.

Ongoing support

Institutional usage reports, jurisdictional updates, and direct sales-engineering support.

Frequently asked questions

How long does a typical patron session take?

It depends on what the patron is creating. A child- or spousal-support calculation takes about 5–10 minutes. A complete provincial financial-statement form runs through our form wizard and takes about 15–30 minutes end to end. Property division and draft separation agreements fall in between depending on asset complexity. The wizard only asks questions relevant to the chosen output, so a patron looking for a quick calculation isn't pulled through full disclosure questions.

Does staff need training to support this?

A short orientation, yes — we provide a one-hour training session for library or courthouse staff so your team can answer common questions and point patrons toward the right starting point. Beyond that, no specialized training is needed: patrons interact with the platform directly through guided intake, so staff don't need to learn the tool's mechanics in depth.

How is privacy protected on a shared terminal?

Sessions auto-clear when the patron is done. All saved profile information, documents, and calculations are deleted on session end — nothing persists on the shared workstation for the next user. Patrons who want to keep their work can create a free Divorcepath account and continue from any device of their own.

Can patrons save progress and come back later?

Not on the public terminal itself, by design — the privacy model assumes one session per patron. Patrons who want to save progress can create their own free Divorcepath account, which preserves their work across devices and sessions on hardware they control.

Can we get usage analytics for our institution?

Yes. Institutional partners get aggregate usage analytics — total sessions, documents generated, jurisdictional breakdown, and form-type counts — without any patron-identifying information.

What family law forms are supported in our province?

Federal Child Support Guideline and Spousal Support Advisory Guideline calculations work for all 13 provinces and territories. Court forms are currently available for Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta — additional provincial form coverage is in development.

Can we customize the URL or branding for our jurisdiction?

Institutional deployments can be configured with a custom landing URL and light co-branding so the entry experience aligns with your library, courthouse, or legal-aid centre's identity. Specifics are scoped during the discovery call.

Can patrons upgrade to a paid Divorcepath account if they want to keep going at home?

Yes. After a public-terminal session, patrons can sign up for a personal Divorcepath account on their own device. The self-represented edition includes a free child-support calculator and a paid path for spousal support, property division, and ongoing document storage.

Bring this to your library or courthouse

Tell us about your branches, your patrons, and the deployment timeline you're working toward. We'll walk you through the pilot path.

A central deployment hub with a security shield connected to four distributed team workspaces — visualizing centralized control with distributed institutional locations.