Made for Canadian firms
Family law software for Canadian law firms
Divo runs the calculations, fills the court forms, and drafts the separation agreement from one matter file. FCSG child support, SSAG spousal support, and provincial property division — for every province and territory, with data hosted in Canada and pricing you can see without a sales call.
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What Divo handles
Family law is the most calculation-heavy practice area in Canadian law: nearly every file needs a child-support number, most need a spousal-support range, contested files need a property division, and all of it lands in prescribed court forms and eventually an agreement. Divo treats those as one workflow on one matter file — not four tools with four copies of the same figures.
Support & property calculations
FCSG child support (table amounts, s. 7 expenses, s. 9 shared-parenting set-off, s. 19 imputed income), SSAG spousal support with duration ranges and lump-sum equivalents, and property division under each province's statute — every result with a full audit trail citing the governing provision.
How to evaluate calculation tools →Court forms & financial statements
Financial-statement forms auto-populate from the matter: Ontario Form 13/13.1, BC Form F8, Alberta's Notice to Disclose, and the equivalents in every other province and territory — with income, expense, and property schedules attached.
Browse the form coverage →Separation agreements
Agreements draft directly from the calculations you've already run — support quantum and duration, the property division figure, disclosure recitals, and ILA acknowledgements — so the numbers in the agreement can never drift from the file.
Separation agreement software →Financial planning & scenarios
Compare unlimited what-if settlements on one matter — income changes, parenting-time shifts, different property splits — with after-tax positions so comparisons are apples-to-apples.
Divorce financial planning →How it fits your firm's workflow
Divo is designed to slot into the systems your firm already runs, not replace them:
- 1Import. Matter and contact data comes in from your practice-management system — we build two-way integrations with Clio, ActionStep, PCLaw/Soluno, and the other tools Canadian family-law firms run on, scoped to your firm during onboarding. Financial disclosure documents (T4s, NOAs, pay stubs) extract into the matter instead of being re-keyed.
- 2Calculate and draft. Support, property, and tax calculations run against the matter with a full audit trail. Court forms and the separation agreement generate from the same data — change an income figure and everything downstream updates.
- 3Export. Court-format PDF and fully editable Word output, filed the way you file today, with documents pushed back to your practice-management or document-management system. The lawyer reviews, signs, and files — Divo does the assembly and the math, not the legal judgment.
Provincial coverage
Family law in Canada is constitutionally split: divorce and support are federal (Divorce Act, Federal Child Support Guidelines), while property division and unmarried-spouse rights are provincial — and the provincial regimes differ sharply. Ontario equalizes net family property; BC shares family property but shields excluded property; Alberta's Family Property Act covers adult interdependent partners; Quebec has mandatory family patrimony. Divo applies the right statute per file and cites it in the audit trail. See how it handles your province:
Made for Canadian law, not adapted from US software
Most of the “family law software” you'll find in a search is American, and it shows the moment you open a file. US tools calculate child support under state-by-state guidelines that have no relationship to the Federal Child Support Guidelines tables, and nothing in the US resembles the SSAG — the advisory spousal-support formulas Canadian courts expect counsel to have run. Alimony math from a New York tool is not a starting point for a Canadian file; it's the wrong law.
Divo is built for the Canadian stack from the ground up: FCSG table amounts and s. 7 apportionment, both SSAG formulas with duration ranges, property division under each province's own statute rather than a generic 50/50 worksheet, and the prescribed financial-statement forms courts here actually require. Pricing is in Canadian dollars, and client data is hosted in Canadian data centres — not a US region with a maple leaf on the marketing page.
If you're comparing tools, make “which country's law does it calculate?” the first question — it eliminates most of the search results before you ever sit through a demo.
How Divo compares
Four tools account for nearly every Canadian family-law software evaluation. Pricing and feature claims below come from each vendor's public website; the full comparison pages link their sources.
| Tool | Public pricing | Positioning |
|---|---|---|
| Divo | $126 CAD/user/month, published — no quote wall | Calculations, court forms, and separation agreements from one matter file; all 13 provinces/territories (Quebec support model on roadmap); integrations built to your firm's stack; 14-day free trial |
| DivorceMate | $75–$200/user/month on 36-month terms; LEAP bundle starts at $149/user/month (per DivorceMate and LEAP public pages). | Canada's incumbent family-law calculation tool, now owned by LEAP Legal Software. Long-standing trust with the judiciary and large firms; UX and architecture date back to the mid-2000s desktop era. |
| ChildView | Not published — quote required | Long-established Canadian family-law calculation tool, used by lawyers and mediators since 1997. Strong emphasis on local-storage and Windows-desktop workflows. |
| Divorcepath | B2C: free / $29 / $59 on 6-month terms; B2B: $80–$100/user/month; enterprise custom (per Divorcepath public pages). | The most directly comparable modern competitor: cloud-first, AI-assisted, Clio-integrated, transparent pricing, hybrid B2B/B2C. Strong product, growing market share. |
What family law software costs in Canada
Canadian family-law calculation tools generally land between $75 and $200 per user per month — but you'd struggle to confirm that from vendor websites, because most of the market sits behind a quote wall. ChildView doesn't publish pricing at all. DivorceMate publishes a range, then attaches a 36-month standard term. Several US tools quote in US dollars and let you discover the exchange rate on your first invoice.
Divo's price is published: $126 CAD per user per month, plus a one-time onboarding fee scoped to your firm's size and integrations. No quote wall, no 36-month lock-in, and a side-by-side comparison of every vendor's public pricing so you can check our math.
Want to spend nothing while you evaluate? Every Divo plan starts with a 14-day free trial, and we keep an honest guide to every free Canadian family-law tool — including our competitors' free calculators — so you can see what free actually covers before paying for anything.
Security & data residency
- →Data stays in Canada. Client data is hosted in Canadian data centres (Toronto and Montreal regions) — a hard requirement for many firms and an answer several competitors leave vague.
- →PIPEDA-compliant and building toward SOC 2 Type II certification.
- →No third-party AI exposure. The calculation engine is deterministic and self-contained; client information is never sent to outside AI providers, and the engine never approximates a guideline amount.
Family law software FAQ
What does family law software actually do?
Purpose-built family law software handles the three workflows nearly every Canadian family file requires: child support under the Federal Child Support Guidelines (table amounts, s. 7 special expenses, s. 9 shared-parenting set-offs, s. 19 imputed income), spousal support under the SSAG formulas (with-child and without-child, duration ranges, lump-sum equivalents), and property division under the governing province's regime. Divo runs all three from one matter file, then generates the court forms and separation agreement from the same data.
How is this different from practice management software like Clio?
Practice management tools (Clio, ActionStep, PCLaw) handle billing, time tracking, matter records, and document storage — they do not calculate support or divide property. Family law calculation software does the legal math and produces court-ready output. Most modern firms run both, with the calculation tool connected to the practice-management system so matter data flows without double entry.
Which provinces and territories does Divo support?
All 13 Canadian provinces and territories. Child support follows the Federal Child Support Guidelines everywhere except Quebec, which uses its own model (Quebec support is on Divo's roadmap). Property division applies each province's regime: Ontario and PEI net-family-property equalization, BC excluded property under FLA Part 5, Alberta's Family Property Act, Manitoba's family/commercial asset distinction, and the Maritime and territorial statutes.
How much does family law software cost in Canada?
Canadian family-law calculation tools generally run $75–$200 per user per month, and several vendors only reveal pricing after a sales call. Divo is $126 CAD per user per month with pricing published on our site — no quote wall — plus a one-time onboarding fee scoped to firm size and integrations. Most firms recover the cost within the first matter compared to manual drafting and re-keying time.
Does Divo integrate with Clio or ActionStep?
Divo is built API-first, and we build two-way integrations scoped to your firm during onboarding — Clio, ActionStep, PCLaw/Soluno, PracticePanther, CosmoLex, NetDocuments, iManage, and SharePoint/OneDrive cover the tools most Canadian family-law firms run on. Matter data and disclosure documents flow both ways, so nothing is entered twice.
Where is client data stored?
In Canadian data centres (Toronto and Montreal regions). Divo is PIPEDA-compliant, and client data is never shared with third-party AI providers — the calculation engine is self-contained. Ask any vendor you evaluate the same three questions: where is data hosted, which AI providers receive it, and what certifications back the answer.
Can we try Divo before committing?
Yes. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access and no credit card required, so you can run real matters end-to-end — calculations, court forms, and a draft agreement — before deciding.
Is there Canadian family law software with free options?
Free Canadian tools are calculators, not full software: the Justice Canada table look-up, MySupportCalculator, Divorcepath's free calculators, and a handful of firm-hosted tools all produce first-pass support estimates but stop short of property division, court forms, or agreements. We maintain an honest guide comparing every free Canadian family-law tool on our blog. For full software, the closest thing to free is a trial — Divo's is 14 days with complete access and no credit card.
Why not use US family law software in Canada?
Because it calculates the wrong law. US tools apply state child-support guidelines instead of the Federal Child Support Guidelines tables, have no SSAG spousal-support formulas (the US has nothing comparable), know nothing about provincial property regimes like Ontario equalization or BC excluded property, and generate American court forms. A Canadian file run through US software isn't a rough draft — it's unusable.
How does Divo compare to DivorceMate, Divorcepath, and ChildView?
DivorceMate is the long-standing incumbent (now LEAP-owned) with deep Ontario roots and 36-month standard terms. Divorcepath is the closest modern comparable, with an established court-form library. ChildView is a desktop-era calculation tool with strong multi-year projections. Divo's differences: one matter file drives calculations, court forms, and the separation agreement together; integrations are built to your firm's stack; and pricing is public. We keep honest, sourced comparison pages for each.
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Book a demo and we'll run a full file live — calculations, financial-statement form, and a draft separation agreement — against the province you practise in.