Family Law Planning · Joe Healy
Stress-test the pool.
Resolve in a day.
Most family law firms prepare a balance sheet. We stress-test the pool: every dollar cited to a document, every anomaly flagged before the other side finds it, every issue prepared so thoroughly that one focused day is enough to resolve it.
Joe Healy's six-step method, engineered end-to-end. Property, parenting, child support and spousal maintenance. Resolved outside court, wherever possible.
Every $
cited to a source document
7 codes
of forensic anomaly, always run
1 day
to resolve, not years
Zero
PDF questionnaires by email
The difference
"Preparing a balance sheet is bookkeeping.
Stress-testing the pool is lawyering."
A ledger you can defend line by line. Anomalies surfaced before the other side raises them. A brief that reads like it was written by a specialist, because the numbers behind it were built by one.
What Joe does
The FLP method, in six steps.
Joe doesn't sell time. He sells a clean, sequenced path from the first consult to a resolved matter. Every step is designed to put the client on the front foot, before anyone files anything.
- 01
Gather the data
Every asset, liability, superannuation balance, payslip, statement and contribution - on the table.
- 02
Build the balance sheet
A clean pool, with each line item cited back to a document. No estimates dressed up as facts.
- 03
Build the story
The context the numbers can't show - contributions, conduct, future needs, the human shape of the matter.
- 04
Prepare
Brief, schedules, chronology, Form 13 if needed. Everything in one orderly bundle, ready to move.
- 05
Strategise
End-game thinking from day one. The order in which issues are tackled, the leverage points, the path to settlement.
- 06
Resolve
Property, parenting, child support, spousal maintenance - every issue sorted, outside court wherever possible, in a single focused day.
The back-office, step by step
The questionnaire era is over.
Every step of Joe's method has a manual version most family law firms still run by email and spreadsheet. The Settle replaces each one - so the lawyer reviews, strategises and resolves, instead of chasing documents.
Gather
Manual
Email the client a PDF questionnaire. Chase by email for months. Re-request the same documents three times.
Inside The Settle
Client invited into a private workspace. Adaptive interview, document upload with OCR, every file held once and cross-referenced.
Balance sheet
Manual
Reconstructed by a paralegal on a spreadsheet, billed by the hour, often weeks behind the disclosure.
Inside The Settle
Drafts itself as the client answers. Every line item cited back to the document it came from.
Story
Manual
Captured in a single intake call, then buried in a file note no one re-reads.
Inside The Settle
Client speaks or types it in fragments, any time of day. Transcribed, threaded, and surfaced into the brief.
Prepare
Manual
A junior assembles a folder of PDFs the week before mediation.
Inside The Settle
Brief, Form 13 pack and chronology drafted end-to-end on the answers already given. Lawyer reviews, doesn't assemble.
Strategise
Manual
Strategy lives in the lawyer's head, surfaced only at meetings.
Inside The Settle
The Console shows disclosure %, flags by severity, money mapped, days to resolution - the whole matter at a glance.
Resolve
Manual
Years of letters and court dates, costs that consume the pool.
Inside The Settle
Single-day resolution. The matter is prepared so thoroughly that one focused day is enough.
The engine, in eight parts
One platform. Built for family law.
Not a generic case-management tool, not an AI bolted onto a form. Every surface is shaped to the Family Law Act framework Joe uses, and to the way separations actually unfold - quietly, in fragments, often at night.
01
The Interview
Adaptive walk through the client's full picture. Questions appear only when they apply.
02
The Vault
Every payslip, statement and super doc, securely held, OCR'd and cross-referenced across the matter.
03
Knowledge
Plain-English answers grounded in the Family Law Act, with the source visible behind every reply.
04
Agents
Purpose-built drafters that run end-to-end - brief, Form 13, chronology - not single prompts.
05
Flags
Gaps, anomalies and missing items surfaced automatically, with the next document to obtain.
06
Workflows
Four named front doors, each shaped to the moment the client is in. No wrong way in.
07
Sounding Board
Plain-English first port of call for the client, any time of day. Keeps the lawyer's inbox quiet.
08
Console
Disclosure completeness, flags by severity, days-to-resolution - Joe's dashboard for every matter.
Meet The Sounding Board
A friendly first port of call, any time of day.
The Sounding Board is FLP's own guide - built and tuned by Joe and the team from years of family-law matters, not a generic chatbot. Clients can ask anything - bank accounts, super, Family Law Act questions, what happens next - in plain English.
It's free, general education only, and never billed as legal time. When a question is specific to their matter, it points them gently back to Joe - so the lawyer's hours are spent where they actually count.
Four services, one end-game
Three fixed-fee front doors.
One main service.
Each front door is a short, fixed-fee consult with Joe. The main game is Family Law Resolution - where we resolve everything in a single focused day.
Front door · fixed fee · 60 min
Considering separation
For those thinking about it but not yet sure. Understand the legal and financial picture before anything else moves.
Begin →Front door · fixed fee · 60 min
Second opinion
For those feeling lost with their current lawyer. Joe will calmly review where things sit and tell you, in plain English, whether the path you're on is the right one.
Begin →Process-driven · fixed fee · no conflict
Second relationship
For those entering a second relationship with real assets and children to protect. Prenups and financial agreements done properly.
Begin →Main service · 3–6 months · single-day resolution
Family law resolution
Property, parenting, child support, spousal maintenance - every issue resolved. The six-step method, end-to-end, resolved outside court in a single focused day.
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