For Attorneys, Paralegals & Mediators

The record your clients should have been building from day one

FairLedger gives co-parents a tamper-proof, jointly acknowledged record of every expense, payment, and custody change, so the record your clients bring to mediation or court is complete, credible, and produced in minutes.

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Without a contemporaneous record, paralegals spend hours auditing client text screenshots to reconstruct disputes that could have been documented in real time. Family law disputes often involve reconstructing months of fragmented communication, screenshots, receipts, and conflicting spreadsheets. FairLedger is designed to create a contemporaneous financial and communication record as events occur, rather than after positions harden and memories diverge.

Both parents have accounts. Shared expenses require acknowledgment from the other party, discussions stay attached directly to each transaction, and the system preserves a tamper-evident history of what was submitted, approved, disputed, or adjusted over time. The goal is to produce a record that is organized, exportable, and easier for attorneys and mediators to follow.

What FairLedger produces

A record built for professional review

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Mutual acknowledgment

Every expense is submitted by one parent and reviewed by the other: approved or disputed with a documented reason. Both parties are on record.

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Append-only audit trail

Approved and disputed entries cannot be edited or deleted. The history is permanent. Corrections enter as adjustment records; the original stays visible.

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Contemporaneous entries

Expenses are timestamped at submission. The record shows when each entry was made, not when it was convenient to add it.

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Receipt attachment

Photos, PDFs, and insurance EOBs attach directly to the transaction they support. Dollar amounts are backed by documentation, not memory.

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Separate ledgers

Support obligations and shared expense reimbursements are tracked seperately, no informal netting of support against expenses, a common source of contempt exposure when support withholding is disputed.

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One-tap PDF export

A clean, printable report covering any date range: every transaction, its status, the running balance, and disputed entries clearly marked.

What this looks like in practice

The birthday cake dispute

A $47 expense. Two parents. A record vs a recollection.

Without FairLedger

"I paid for Emma's birthday cake — $47. You owe me half."

"Party expenses aren't covered under the MSA."

"It says children's activities — a birthday is an activity."

"We're going to have to agree to disagree."

Eight months later in mediation: conflicting recollections, a text thread nobody can fully produce, and a dispute that was never formally resolved.

With FairLedger
Shared Expense
Emma's Birthday Cake · $47.00
Submitted by Sarah · Mar 15 · 2:41 PM
Receipt attached ✓
⚠ Disputed by James · Mar 18 · 9:04 AM
"Party expenses are excluded per our MSA. This is not a reimbursable shared expense."

The dispute reason is preserved verbatim, timestamped, and attached to the transaction. Your client walks in with the record. You don't have to reconstruct it.

See it before you recommend it

See FairLedger in action

We've built a pre-populated live account showing both parents' perspectives: real expenses, approvals, disputes, custody schedules, and the export your client would hand you. No sign-up required.

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FairLedger demo account showing shared expenses, custody swap requests, and today's schedule
The deliverable

What lands in your hands

FairLedger's expense report is designed to be readable by someone with no prior knowledge of the case. Select the date range, generate, and share. No reformatting required.

  • Every transaction with date, amount, category, and who submitted it
  • Status for every entry: approved, disputed, or pending
  • Dispute reasons preserved verbatim as part of the record
  • Shared expense and support ledgers shown separately
  • Category subtotals and running net balance
  • Printable PDF, court-ready without additional formatting
FairLedger expense report showing transaction table, status column, and running balance
FairLedger on iOS and web
Beyond the ledger

Custody and communication, documented too

FairLedger isn't just an expense tracker. The custody calendar logs formal swap requests with a full request-and-response audit trail. Every conversation between co-parents is attached to the specific expense, event, or swap it relates to, not buried in a text thread.

  • Custody calendar with colour-coded daily custody assignments
  • Formal swap requests: submitted, responded to, and preserved
  • Notes threaded to individual transactions, events, and swap requests
  • FairCoach — optional AI communication coaching, built on BIFF principles, helping clients communicate more effectively while preserving an accurate record
  • Available on both web and iOS, with no platform barrier for either parent

When one client isn't ready to participate

FairLedger includes a solo mode for clients who want to begin building a timestamped record before, or without, their co-parent's cooperation. Solo entries are logged individually, receipts attach normally, and the record transitions to full mutual acknowledgment mode the moment the other parent joins.

A solo record is not a jointly verified record, but a timestamped, receipt-backed history of one parent's out-of-pocket spending is a useful foundation, particularly when the other parent's cooperation is in dispute.

Recommend FairLedger to a client

Clients can sign up for a free 30-day trial. No credit card required. They can start in solo mode immediately, and invite their co-parent when ready.

After the trial, plans start at $9.99/month.

Or simply forward this page: fairledger.app/for-professionals

Interactive resource packet: fairledger.app/evidence-packet

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