divorcerbot

This is not legal advice. divorcerbot gives general legal information and does deterministic calculations from figures you enter. It cannot know your circumstances and can be wrong for your case. It is a tool to help you understand the law and prepare so you can get real advice affordably — see Your route to advice.

🛟 If you are in danger or experiencing domestic abuse, your safety comes first. Free, 24/7, confidential: 0808 2000 247 (Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline). Emergency: 999 (if you can’t speak, dial 999 then press 55 from a mobile). Abuse can exempt you from mediation and may qualify you for legal aid.

Two engines, deliberately separate:

🔒 Deterministic engines (in your browser). Eligibility, the divorce timeline, the Child Maintenance calculation, the s.25 financial factors and the case-law strategy all run as plain code on your device. No data leaves your browser. Same inputs → same answer, every time — because the law and the CMS formula are rules, not opinions. Every figure and case is sourced (see Case library).

🧠 The AI analyser (your choice of engine). To pour in the messy pile of a real divorce — emails, statements, a jumble of facts — you choose how it’s read:

WebLLM (fully local) — a model runs inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Best for private “doc only” work: organising, summarising, first-pass sorting of sensitive material.
Bring Your Own Key (Claude or any provider) — paste your own API key and the analysis runs on that provider under your account, for heavier reasoning. The key is stored only on this device; your data goes only to the provider you choose. divorcerbot never has a key of its own.

Either way the AI is grounded in the verified corpus above — it is instructed to use only the real, cited authorities in this tool, to stay even-handed (every argument gets its counter-argument), to keep any child’s welfare paramount, and never to invent case law. It is a drafting aid, still not advice.

Jurisdiction (the law differs in each)

Years married

Our marriage is legally recognised in the UK One of us is habitually resident / domiciled in this jurisdiction

No-fault since 6 April 2022. From the application being issued: 20 weeks to the conditional order, then 6 weeks + 1 day to the final order. Court fee £612.

Date the application was issued

Standard CMS (2012 scheme) formula. An estimate — confirm on the official GOV.UK calculator.

Paying parent’s gross weekly income (£)

Number of children

Nights/year the paying parent has them

Other children living with the paying parent

Paying parent receives qualifying benefits

Tick what applies. This maps your facts to the real, cited authorities — each with its counter-argument and the evidence you’d need. Argument scaffolding, not a prediction.

Their former role (if under-employed)

Their former salary (£)

Relocation distance (miles)

Years since separation

Paste the messy pile — a timeline, emails, a witness statement, whatever you have. The analyser reads it against the s.25 framework and the cited cases and returns a structured analysis + a draft position statement. Choose your engine — this is where the privacy choice lives.

Engine

Local model — downloads once, then cached & works offline. Needs a WebGPU browser (Chrome/Edge desktop).

Not loaded — click download. First time pulls the model (a few minutes); after that it’s instant and offline.

Add files — any format (PDF, Word, images & screenshots, email, CSV, text)

📎 Drag files here, or

Read on your device: PDFs are parsed, images/screenshots are OCR’d, Word docs extracted. Your document content is not uploaded — only the extraction libraries load from a CDN.

Your data — type or paste here (the files above are added automatically when you analyse)

This tool is built to get you from “I can’t afford a lawyer and they can” to represented, or well-prepared. Two moves matter most:

1 · Make them fund your lawyer — a Legal Services Payment Order

If the other side has money (or family money) and you don’t, you can apply under MCA 1973 s.22ZA for an order that they pay your legal costs so you can be represented. The principles are in Rubin v Rubin [2014] EWHC 611 (Fam). Family-funded opponents are the classic case for it. Take the “Level the funding field” output above to a solicitor.

2 · Walk in prepared — turn hours of a solicitor’s time into minutes

Use this tool to arrive with your facts sorted, your numbers run, and the relevant authorities already identified. A first appointment then costs a fraction and goes further. Generate a position statement in the analyser and bring it.

Free & low-cost help:

Check if you qualify for legal aid — available for family cases involving domestic abuse or child protection, and means-tested.
Advocate (the Bar’s pro bono charity) & LawWorks — free representation/clinics.
Citizens Advice — family, and university law clinics.
Resolution — find a constructive family solicitor/mediator.
Family mediation (a MIAM) — often required before court; you can be exempt if there’s domestic abuse.
Representing yourself: the litigant-in-person guidance and a McKenzie friend for support in the room.

On the pension: for anything serious (like an Armed Forces pension) insist on a PODE (Pension on Divorce Expert) report and a CETV — that is specialist work no self-help tool replaces.

How it works

Start — where, and can you apply?

Timeline (England & Wales)

Child maintenance estimate

Case strategy — cited arguments (England & Wales)

Analyse your data (AI)

Your route to advice — how this levels the field

1 · Make them fund your lawyer — a Legal Services Payment Order

2 · Walk in prepared — turn hours of a solicitor’s time into minutes

Case library & sources