I am not seeing the life insurance premium on my Colorado Sworn Financial Statement.
The treatment of life insurance depends on whether or not the insurance is a payroll deduction. This note describes both possibilities. 1. If the life insurance is a payroll deduction: If the life insurance is a payroll deduction, you may indicate that on Income & Expenses > Investment, Debt, as shown below. The entry will […]
How can I handle post-decree cases?
The Family Law Software Sworn Financial Statement has two versions: with details, and without. You make the selection on the Form Info screen. The version "without" details is the Official Sworn Financial Statement. Mostly, people use the "unofficial" version (with details) for divorces. This version changes the formatting of the asset list to provide columns […]
How can I get assets to show up on the correct place on the Sworn Financial Statement?
To specify categories for the Sworn Financial Statement, click Lawyer tab > Assets & Debts, and enter the "Investment Type" for Cash & Investment assets… and the "Asset Type" for Personal Items.
I am trying to run the free Client Edition of Family Law Software, and I am getting a message that my trial has expired.
Once you install the trial Professional Edition, the software will prevent you from running the free Client Edition (unless you subscribe). What you can do is to eliminate all traces of the software from your computer and start over with the Client Edition. To do this, if you are running Windows, do the following: 1. […]
I have enough overnights for shared custody (Worksheet B), so why is the software using sole (Worksheet A)?
Colorado law provides that if the shared calculation (Worksheet B) results in a higher child support amount then the sole calculation (Worksheet A), then the sole calculation should be used, even if the number of overnights would indicate a shared calculation. Under the Colorado formula, it is possible that the shared custody calculation would result […]
How can I adjust page breaking on my Sworn Financial Statement?
First, we recommend that you only “worry” about dangling lines when you are doing the final Sworn Financial Statement. As long as you are working with drafts don’t worry about it. As you edit and add and delete items and/or footnotes throughout the SFS, the page breaking will keep changing. If you change page breaking […]
Why can I only open one file in my Colorado Child Support calculator?
The free Colorado child support calculator was always intended to be used only by pro se individuals. For several years, we have been permitting multiple files to be created and saved, and this enabled attorneys to use the pro se edition as well. It was always on our “to do” list to limit usage to […]
How can I get health insurance to show up in the correct place on the Sworn Financial Statement?
If the health insurance is a payroll deduction, it will appear in Section 2, as shown below: If it is NOT a payroll deduction, it will appear in section D of the personal expenses section of the SFS, as shown below: It is the Tax Category that tells the software which it is. You will […]