447.09
For All Users
1. Notifications of Client Logins. Previously, we would send an email to the professional or paralegal whenever a client logged in. Now, that is an option that you can turn on or off. And by default, the option is turned off. That means that, if you do nothing, you will no longer receive those emails. If you would like to continue to receive emails whenever a client logs in, start File Manager, click the option gear (shown below), and check the box to do so. The box is labeled “Email Alert Upon Client Login.”
This option is available only in the Cloud software, not in the desktop software.
2. Landscape Mode. There are a few pages in the software where landscape mode can be appropriate.
These are the following:
– Marital Property Division report, if enough columns are specified.
– Marital and Separate Property Division Report, if enough columns are specified.
– In Florida, the DPA guideline report.
Until now, it was not possible to print these in landscape mode in the Cloud software. Now you can. Here’s how: for the property division reports, there is now an option on the Options screen for the report to print landscape mode. If you click that check box, then, when you print, the report will come out in landscape mode. For the Florida DPA guideline report, there is no need for an option. That page will always print in landscape mode
3. Logo on Cover Page. In the Cloud software, it is now possible to upload your logo and have it print on the front page of financial reports. To do that, go to Settings > Configuration > Set Report Options > Upload your Logo. You may use .jpg, .png, or .bmp files. Also be sure that you have selected the option to print a cover page in the Financial Plan Report Options section immediately below the logo upload button.
Once the logo is uploaded, print a financial report. To do that, click Reports > More Reports. Specify multiple reports to print, and click the pdf button at the top. Your logo will appear on the cover page.
4. Alert text. In the Cloud software, when the software wants to alert you to a possible inconsistency or missing data, it displays that information in bold font. That information will now appear in a bright blue font, so it is clearly visible and distinguishable from general program text.
5. Account button. In the Cloud software, there is now an Account button in the upper right hand corner. Click that button if you wish to change your credit card information, or to upgrade from the Cloud to the Firm edition. The screen may ask for your User Id. You can find your User Id at the very bottom of the Family Law Software screen.
6. Banner with Support Results. In the Cloud software, the child and spousal support amounts appear in a banner at the very top of the Enter Data screen. In some cases, that banner was being cut off. If your screen is wide enough, which most PCs are, you can now see the full banner.
7. Property Division Scenarios. In the Cloud software, it was not possible to print an individual column in the Property Division Scenarios screen (Analysis > Prop Div Scenarios). It is now possible to do so.
8. Program help. We have rewritten our program help to reflect the current release of the software. At the top of many screens, you will see a help button. Click that button, and you will now be taken to the newly updated program help, context-sensitive for that screen.
9. “Details” sections. We have changed the label of “Details” sections in our reports to “Support Impact.” The “Support Impact” label enables the headings to be more consistent and more descriptive.
10. Cell phone numbers. On some state affidavits, there is a field for the phone number. In the past, we always carried the home phone number to that field. It is now the case that, if there is no home phone number entered, but there is a cell phone number entered, we will carry the cell phone number to the phone number field on the affidavit. This accomplishes the affidavit’s objective of having the phone number where the party can be reached appear on the affidavit.
State specific
California
- Spousal Support. The “Enter Data > Support Data > Complete” screen now has, at the top of the screen, the option to specify whether we should calculate spousal support . That makes this important option easier to find. That option continues also to be located in the Spousal Support section of the screen, as it has been.
Georgia
- Capital gains tax. We have updated the Georgia capital gains rate to 5.19%.
Illinois
- Mandatory retirement. It is now possible to enter mandatory retirement contributions on the Wages “more info” screen. This makes it more convenient to enter the mandatory retirement number, which you are typically copying from a pay stub where the wages number is also located.
- Child tax credit. We now automatically calculate the Illinois child tax credit in the Illinois state tax calculation.
Maryland
- Official forms. We have updated all official forms to the latest versions.
New Jersey
- SSR Worksheet. On the New Jersey SSR worksheet, in the shared custody section, we have updated the line numbers.
New York
- Footnotes for transportation expenses. Footnotes for New York transportation expenses now appear on the Budget Report, regardless of whether the expenses are entered per vehicle or for all vehicles at once. Previously, transportation expenses footnotes did not generally carry to the Budget Report if expenses were entered per vehicle.
447.08
For All Users
- State tax updates. We have updated the tax rates and tables for all states to 2025 rates. This means that Family Law Software has more current rates even than your tax software. Tax software will not be updated for 2025 rates until late fall. One exception: California, which does not publish its current-year tax rates until fall each year. The following states had some changes this year. Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Many of these are simply inflation adjustments to brackets.
- Updated Software Help online. We have updated the online Software Help. This help is organized screen by screen in Family Law Software. It gives overviews of what is happening on each screen and useful tips on what and how to enter information on each data entry screen, or how to use the Analysis and Reports screens to improve client outcomes.
- Support What If. On the Support What If screen in the Cloud, you can now print the guideline as it would look for each scenario without having to swap columns.
- Securities Gain. On the Securities Gain screen, changing the basis now updates the gain amount without having to refresh the screen. The Securities Gain screen helps you see how much “built in” gain there is on the securities in a client’s portfolio. This is important, because $10,000 of assets with substantial built-in gain is actually worth less on an after-tax basis than $10,000 of assets with no built-in gain.
- Changed “Other What If” to “General What If.” We have changed the name of the menu option “Other What If” to “General What If.” This is on the Analysis tab. The name “General What If” is more descriptive.
State specific
California
- Judicial Council form FL-191. We had combined two sets of checkboxes in to one group. Now, they are separated into two groups.
- Judicial Council form FL-341(C). We added this form.
Florida
- Child support. In the step-down calculation, if alimony ends during the step-down period, that affects the calculation of child support. That effect is now being taken into account in calculating the step-down child support amount.
Illinois
- Order for Support . We have updated our Order for Support to match the current official form.
Michigan
- Support What If. The scenarios for Support What If now print the official Michigan guideline worksheet.
Minnesota
- Guideline worksheet. When one party pays health insurance and the other party pays dental insurance, the medical support obligation amount on line 9(g) for the noncustodial parent now matches the amount shown on the state’s online calculator.
447.07
For all Users
- Notifications. Notifications that a client is ready to have you review their file now go to the person specified for notifications when the file is created. Previously, they went to the primary subscriber on the account.
- Client name. In notifications about a client, we now use the client name consistently. Previously, we sometimes used the client’s email address.
- Swap. The Swap function is now working in Child Support What If in the Cloud.
- Trial edition. In the trial edition of the app, the “# days remaining in your trial” now shows the correct number.
- “Renew” link. In the desktop software, the link to renew the software now goes to the correct page.
State Specific
California
- Credits. In calculating California state tax, we no longer apply non-refundable credits, such as the renter’s credit, to reduce the SDI tax. This will have a nominal impact on the child support calculation.
- Spousal support taxability. We added a note in the help at the checkbox for spousal support taxability to clarify that this checkbox will affect state taxes, but it will not affect child support.
New Jersey
- Low-income calculation. On the child support guideline worksheet for sole parenting, where both parties’ line 25 amounts are less than 150% of the poverty guideline for one person ($452) we are now putting the line 21 or line 24 amount on line 27. Previously, we were not calculating line 27 correctly in this situation.
447.06
For All Users
- User Id. To change your credit card, we ask for your User Id. You can find your User Id at the very bottom of the screen in the Cloud software. But what if you are an associate in a firm, and the license is in the name of another attorney? We now show both your User Id and the User Id of the primary user. The latter is the one you need in order to change the credit card.
- Footnotes. When expenses are shown by residence and the Budget Report option is selected to show only one party’s information, and you are viewing the second party entered, housing expense footnotes were being omitted from the Budget Report. This is fixed.
State Specific
California.
- State tax calculation. In calculating state tax, we now subtract the California Earned Income Credit and any other unused refundable credits from the SDI tax. This change resulted from a directive from the Judicial Council that we should be doing this. The result is to make taxes lower for individuals who receive the Earned Income Credit, which makes their Net Disposable Income slightly higher. This could increase their contribution to a child’s support.
Florida
- Arrears rates. We have updated the arrears rates charged on child support for the new rates effective as of April 1, 2025.
- Assets on Financial Affidavit. From older files, if an asset had an investment type that is no longer shown, the asset was not appearing on the data entry screen in the “for the affidavit” views. Now, assets with an obsolete investment type are appearing on the data entry screen in all views.
Illinois
- Real estate expenses. You now have the option to omit expenses from a real estate property on the Financial Affidavit. The expenses would still carry to the budget report and cash flow projections. They would simply not appear on the Financial Affidavit. You find this option in a checkbox in the “more info” screen for the asset, in the section on fields specifically for the Financial Affidavit and at the bottom of the section for real estate expenses.
New York
- Tuition expenses. The tuition expense lines were not carrying designations such as “Unknown” or “TBD” to the Net Worth Statement. These designations are now carrying.
- “Rental property” designation. On the more info screen for real estate properties, there was a checkbox to designate the property as a rental property. This checkbox is obsolete, and we have removed it.
Ohio
- Health Insurance Affidavit. On the Health Insurance Affidavit, if the first party was male, the parties’ names were reversed. This is fixed.
447.05
For all users
- Arrears. We have updated state-specific arrears interest rates.
- Corrupted files. We have continued to improve the software’s ability to load and work with files that contain assets where the data has become corrupted. Now you are able to change the order of the way assets are listed in such many files.
- Sample file. The Sample File has been updated to 2025.
State Specific
California
- Judicial Council Forms. Updated FW-001
Illinois
- 2025 Tables. We have updated the gross-to-net and basic obligations tables for 2025.
Massachusetts
- Payroll deductions. Write-in payroll deductions were being doubled for purposes of the Support Impact report. They are now being accounted for correctly.
New York
- Automobile expenses. “Other” automobile expenses were being omitted from the Budget Report if you were entering automobiles one at a time. Now, all “other” automobile expenses will carry to the Budget Report.
447.04
For all users
- Increased stability. We received a couple of reports of users being logged out of specific files. We fixed the issue that was causing that for those users. This event is rare, and it should be even more rare now.
- Help button at checkbox. In a few locations, the help windows on the same line as a checkbox were being scrolled away before they could be read. We have fixed that.
State Specific
California
- Judicial Council Form – update CIV-110.
- Judicial Council Form – update FL-334.
- Judicial Council Form – update CLETS-001.
- Judicial Council Form – update FL-320-INFO.
- Judicial Council Form – update FL-320.
- Judicial Council Form – update MIL-100.
Ohio
- The length of the name fields became shorter when we made some header changes. We restored the name fields to their original length.
Oregon
- As an artifact of a recent update, child groceries had been moved to the “Personal” section on the Budget Report. It is now reinstated as a “Child” expense.