My wife's co-parenting finances lived in a Google Sheet her ex had built. Hidden formulas. No rules. No history. Support and Expenses co-mingled. Either parent could change or delete anything, at any time, without a trace.
One day she noticed a block of transactions she'd entered were gone. A text thread followed to sort out what had happened and why .. a separate conversation, disconnected from the record it was about, with no way to attach it to anything permanent.
That was the moment. The problem isn't that co-parents don't want to track expenses. It's that the tools they use weren't built to be trusted.
Entries are locked once submitted. Nothing disappears, including corrections. Every change leaves a trace, so the record shows exactly what happened and when, not what was convenient to show later.
Both parents confirm shared expenses before they appear in the ledger. There is no unilateral record. Both parties have seen and responded to every entry.
Dispute reasons, payment context, and messages are attached directly to the transaction they belong to — timestamped and permanently part of the record. Not buried in a separate text thread that gets lost, deleted, or disputed months later in mediation.
Child support and shared expenses are tracked independently, because combining them is how contempt disputes start. The record reflects actual obligations, not a single muddled total that obscures what was paid, what was owed, and what was withheld.
A clean PDF report: totals, statuses, running balances, and line-item detail. Formatted for review by attorneys and mediators, available in one tap. Built to be produced in minutes, not reconstructed from memory.
I spent 20+ years as an enterprise architect at Oracle, and 15+ years in banking and healthcare .. industries where record integrity isn't optional and where the cost of a missing or altered entry can be significant.
I built FairLedger the way I'd build any system where the data needs to hold up under scrutiny: with immutability, auditability, and both parties in the loop by design.
My wife and I are both in our second marriages. Between us, we have five boys. This problem is real, and it's personal.
— Shaun McLaurin · LinkedIn
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