The New York child support formula is like others, nationwide.  The child support computation is found in the Child Support Standards Act.  It begins with the income of both parents, takes deductions for certain taxes and expenses, and multiples by a percentage for the number of children in the household.

In New York and other states, the child support calculation is a rebuttable presumption.  If a person can show one of the statutory reasons that the court should adjust child support, a different outcome might be achieved.  But, even where there is a variation in child support, the argument and the final order must set forth the presumptive calculation of child support before illustrating the variance.

Why automate your child support calculations using Easy Soft’s legal software, like EzSupport-NY?  First, our law office software reminds you to start at the beginning of the required calculations for each client.  Second, it reduces math mistakes.  When your input is clean and accurate, your client gains financial rewards and protections.

Even if you are looking for New York state uncontested divorce software, you will have to show the child support calculation in order to submit a proper judgment roll for judicial signature.  Right next to the Statement of Net Worth, the NY child support calculator is so important, a judge is not permitted to sign the Judgment of Divorce, unless child support is properly calculated and presented as part of the judgment roll.

As often as you calculate child support, each time you do so without the power of Easy Soft’s legal software, you run the risk of making a mistake.  For a $249 purchase price, isn’t it worth it to your clients to get the math right every time?

The idea behind a docket control system is to build two or more sources of reminders for the functions you are responsible to complete.  Listing two or more docket control systems is a routine question on applications and renewals of professional liability insurance – the more activity there is around managing your schedule the lower the odds that you’ll forget to do something or be somewhere.

When you use Easy TimeBill and Easy Trust legal software, you incorporate computer automation into your docket control system through your law office billing software and trust accounting software.  These programs have calendaring and to-do lists, which act as a docket control system.

In Easy Soft legal software, there is a module called “Case Management,” through which you can maintain a calendar, create task lists, write notes, and link documents.  To add a task, simply select the client, identify a due date, flag the priority level of the task, write your description, and assign it.  As you progress a matter, you can go back into the attorney billing software task list and update the record with how much of the task has been completed.  Our legal software will even allow you to see a list of completed tasks.

With our pair of legal software products, you will also be able to see the same information in different views.  For example, once you have added a to-do task, another way our law office billing software will remind you of the task is to show it to you when you click on that particular client.  If you forgot about the task and were going into the file to record another activity or expense, the scheduled task will be the first thing that you see.

To recap, this has been the week to highlight trust account bookkeeping, conflict management, and docket control, and how you can successfully serve yourself in all three areas by using Easy Soft’s legal software.  In our litigious society, the best defense is the best offense, and that means incorporating law office billing software to automate your business practices in high-risk areas of the law office.

And, as a special bonus-added offering, we’re including a good night’s sleep, at no additional charge.

The answer is as easy as saying Easy Soft “legal software.”

Today, let’s talk about just one area of professional responsibility and that is the trust account for client advance retainer deposits.  Fortunately for you, there’s “Easy Trust” attorney trust accounting software and “Easy TimeBill” legal billing software.

Lawyers operate at least two bank accounts.  One is the operating account for receipt of client payments and remittance of bills.  The other is the escrow account for moneys that clients provide, in advance, to be held in trust by you for future billing.

Our attorney trust accounting software can help you avoid mistakes.  When you perform attorney trust accounting by hand or in spreadsheets, it is all too simple to make a math mistake and overdraw one or more client payments from your IOLTA account.  The problem is that overpayment by one client is taken from the funds of another client, so it won’t jump out as a bank account overdraw or a bounced check.  But, it’s not an innocent math mistake.  It could become an ethics violation and cost you in more ways than one.

We’ve specifically designed our law office billing software to help you meet your ethic requirements for trust accounts.  When you receive an advance retainer deposit from a client, you enter it into our legal software.  Every time you work on a client matter using our legal software, you will see the balance of the client retainer deposit on your screen.  Any time you want to see a list clients and balances in the IOLTA, all you have to do is open our legal software and click on reports.  And, at the end of the month, you balance the IOLTA account against the bank statement, and click to see an updated report of client escrow balances.

The beauty of using our attorney billing software for these and other trust accounting functions is the precision of automation, the ease of seeing reports compiled from available information, and the constant reminders of these available software functions.

When a lawyer is in compliance with trust accounting, responding to a grievance or inquiry is as easy as pulling the file, making photocopies, and providing a detailed narrative.  The easiest way to accomplish this feat?  Easy.  Use Easy Soft for your legal software needs.

With Easy Soft’s attorney billing software, you can correct errors in seconds.  If you see a typographical error in a word you input in a recent entry, simply click on the time card, go into the field containing the error, and type the correction.  As a more serious and potentially pervasive problem, if you see that the wrong billing rate has been set up for a client in your law firm billing software, simply go into the client set-up screen and edit the hourly rate to be applied, so that our software can instantly revise all associated calculations.

When you create an invoice with Easy TimeBill law office billing software, you select the client and the range of dates, and print the invoice.  Once you create and print the invoice through the legal software, our program will change the billable time and expense entries to “billed” and will grey-scale those entries.  Through this process, Easy TimeBill wards off further edits to time and expenses already billed to a client.

Our legal software also contains fail-safe measures.  If you make a determination that an edit needs to be made to an invoice that has already been printed, you can reverse the invoice back to pending status, make the necessary edits, and create a new invoice.  In the alternative, you can make a new time or expense entry with a description of the adjustment being made, which will be printed during the next billing cycle.  Either way, it’s as user-friendly as law office software can be.

Whether you’re using Easy Soft’s legal billing software or any of Easy Soft’s other programs, you’ll get that same ease of use and editing.  And, if you run into a mistake that you just can’t seem to correct, all of our Easy Soft products come with 1-year of free technical assistance provided by live operators.  We are dedicated to the technical programming of legal software, so you’d have to be.  Our company name is Easy Soft for a reason.

For hourly fee practices, our legal software is designed to record your receipt of client advance retainer deposits, balances, expenses remitted, and invoices paid.  Easy TimeBill law firm billing software has screens for time billing, complete with a visible clock, and a feature to set your minimum billing increment.  And it has expense screens to list and describe expenses as incurred on a file.

By contrast, let’s say you are billing on a fixed fee, perhaps for a house closing or an individual bankruptcy.  Our attorney billing software offers you the choice of ‘fixed fee plus cost’ or a ‘periodic fixed fee bill.’  You can still record the billable hours and document each step of your professional services, but our legal software will ensure that when it generates the monthly invoice, it will not exceed the terms of the fixed fee arrangement.

Or, if you are in a contingency fee arrangement, such as a personal injury case, Easy TimeBill allows you to enter expenses and generate monthly invoices for those expenses.  Our law office billing software includes a closing statement to include receipt of settlement funds, deposit of those funds in the trust account, the expenses to be deducted against, the percentage to be paid to the firm, and the balance to be released to the client.

What’s particularly handy if you have a blended case practice is that our legal software will help you with accurate billing to each type of client.  When you are first hired by a client, you enter a new client on one screen, including fill-in fields with the type of billing for the file.  You only have to enter this information once.  Our legal billing software will remember that information for all future bills.

You might think that a single computer program that offers this many features would be expensive, but Easy TimeBill is easy on the wallet.  Licenses start at $249 and include free technical support for one year.

Just one of the key features of the Easy Soft attorney billing software is its network capability.  Within the law office environment, networking is critical for efficient and timely task completion.  Computer server technology allows attorneys on different floors and in different buildings to communicate with each other concerning client matters.  Our law office software has also developed to the point that an entire law firm can use one program linked in to one database that serves as a network for all of the billing activity of the entire firm.

For the manager of law office billing, the permissions for the network settings within Easy Soft legal billing software allow him or her to see every member of the firm.  Is the new associate properly entering time upon return from court?  Is the seasoned paralegal using routines within the law firm billing software for daily time and expense entry that will minimize omissions and maximize profitability?

With Easy Soft law office billing software you can also limit the permissions of what data is available on a person-by-person basis.  Particularly if you are using the billing software in connection with the trust accounting software, you can limit what is seen on the screens of associates and support staff.  Our billing software can put everyone in the firm on the same system, but allow for added confidentialities when and how you find appropriate.

All of our Easy Soft legal software products are network capable, and programs like Easy HUD allow various members on the closing team to input information as it becomes available, sharing the work through the development process to the printing of even the HUD-1.  And, all of our products have free trial down loads and a 30-day money back guarantee.

When Easy Soft law office billing software is part of your firm’s work environment, you take advantage of what network technology offers to add value to your bottom line.  Why not watch a ten minute video on our Easy Soft website to gain an introduction into the network and other features of our product?  The download of the free trial takes only a few more minutes.

Just think, with your selection Easy Soft network-capable legal software, within about fifteen minutes, you could be on your way to Easy Street.

For attorneys just starting out in matrimonial and family law, Easy Soft’s Divorce Financial Software means you don’t have to struggle with a blank sheet of white paper and a statute book.  Our legal software will guide you through input of basic case information to populate repetitive fields in mandatory forms.  It will produce entire sample documents to get you started.  And it is organized to encourage new attorneys to point, click, and learn by browsing through the library of documents.

If you are a mid-career attorney and perhaps you even already use a competitor’s program, we invite you to download a sample of Easy Soft’s law office software to take it for a test drive.  When you have many cases to work on, core efficiencies help increase your bottom line and reduce the risk of error.  You might want to partner our family law software with our law office billing software and our attorney trust accounting software to experience just how much impact Easy Soft can bring to your bottom line.

Why switch over to Easy Soft family law software if you are an advanced practitioner?  To make your job even easier.  You can add your own documents to the Easy Soft program library and insert the commands to have those documents populate from our one-entry central information screen.  And, you might have noticed that because your documents are so customized, you sometimes forget the basics.  Using “Divorce Financials Software” to automate your approach will ensure that critical provisions appear in every document, every time.

Easy Soft is a dedicated legal software company with more than 21-years of experience and more than 15,000 clients.  Each of our products can be explored on a free trial basis and purchased with a 30-day money-back guarantee.  Every program also comes with 1-year free technical support.

At Easy Soft legal software company, we understand the essential principles of legal bank accounts and bookkeeping.  We know that you need a business operating account that is separate from your Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts.  We understand that having to balance two bank accounts each month causes anxiety, particularly if the IOLA account contains deposits from several clients or from one client on several matters.

What we also know at Easy Soft is that automated processes reduce the risk of human error.

With our suite of law office software, you can run your operating account, write checks for routine expenses, enter deposits, and reconcile the computer entries against your monthly bank-issued statements.  With our legal software, you can also make deposits to your IOLTA account, separately designated to the individual client, and maintain a running log for each client, even though the deposits are aggregated.  Likewise, with Easy Soft legal billing software, you can write checks from the IOLA account for appropriate expenditures and payments to the firm, and you can reconcile the monthly bank statement to the computer entries.

Easy Soft’s attorney billing software also contains built-in features to try to stop you from making math mistakes before they happen.  If you try to write a trust account check for a client invoice that exceeds the client’s own balance, “Trust Accounting Software” will instantly show a computer alert.  This alert within our legal software is an important feature to try to stop you from mistaking the account total balance for the individual client balance.

Here at Easy Soft, we’re not just asking you to take our word for it that our legal software is the best legal software on the market.  One of our customers, Attorney Jason Flynn, offered this recommendation:   “My firm would not function properly without the assistance of Easy Time Bill and Trust programs.”

Properly used, with Easy Soft’s legal billing software you will neither a borrower nor a lender be and, from trust account worries, you will be free.

Discounts are a common write-down taken on a client invoice.  You went the extra mile, recording all the hours and value for professional services you expended for your client.  But, it adds up to more than your client might be able to afford.  When you decide to offer a percentage discount on a single invoice or an on-going basis, why not do it the Easy way?

When you use “Easy TimeBill” legal software, you can select a client, select “discount,” and indicate a percentage discount for a single invoice or an on-going basis.  Our legal billing software will calculate the full invoice, showing all of your hard work, and will then show a line for the discount applied and subtract the discount before calculating the amount due.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are those clients with overdue invoices.  Assuming that your retainer agreement calls for finance charges on overdue invoices, why not allow our attorney billing software to automatically make that computation for you?

When you use “Easy TimeBill” legal software, you can select “finance charge” and input the percentage specified in your retainer agreement.  Easy Soft will make the calculation and input it onto the invoice, adding in the finance charge above the total amount due.

Spellcheck is that additional feature we’re so used to using that we made sure it was programmed as a feature in our law firm billing software.  Why not make it Easy on yourself to spit-shine your invoices using the Easy Soft built-in spellcheck feature?

At Easy Soft, our legal software programmers try to think about all the details of your day, so that you can concentrate on the professional services you deliver to your clients.  And our commitment doesn’t end with the last line of code.  Easy Soft technical support staff are just a phone call away, if you experience a question while using our software.

Once you start using our Easy Soft legal software products, you’re going to wish you had an “Easy” button in all your other applications.

Some might say:  ‘about as much fun as going to the lawyer.’

Here at Easy Soft, we’re perfectly happy to spend our days programming legal software to make it easier for lawyers and their staff to provide top quality professional services.  So, why not give yourself and your paralegal a break by letting us pro rate your taxes and calculate your property transfer taxes… the Easy way?

With Easy Soft’s “Real Estate Closing Software”, you gain a comprehensive City, County, School, Condominium, and Sewer taxes proration module.  You simply enter the annual amounts of the taxes in their respective fields, enter the date of closing, and let our Easy HUD Software prorate the seller’s over/underpayments.  Our legal software then automatically inserts the prorated taxes into the appropriate lines of closing documents, such as the HUD 1 form. No more counting days and crunching fractions.

The “Easy HUD” law office software also contains the programming for an automatic calculation of property transfer taxes.  For nearly every state, Easy HUD legal software already contains current formulas for computations of property transfer taxes. As soon as you enter the sales price of the property, “Easy HUD” calculates the appropriate property transfer taxes.  If your jurisdiction doesn’t appear on the list of pre-programmed states, just give us a call, and we’ll program the formulas just for you.

Easy Soft’s HUD Settlement Statement software is being used right now in forty states by thousands of real estate attorneys and their staff.  Among those closing attorneys is William Bronchick, CEO of Mile High Title & Escrow, LLC, who wrote: “Took 10 mins to install and a day to learn, and I taught my staff in just a few hours.”

Still doubtful it can be this easy?  Why not take our legal software for a test drive?  Every one of our software products can be downloaded in demonstration format.  You’ll have a chance to see the screens, fill in the fields, push buttons, and print out forms.  Of course, we also back our law office software by a 30-day money back guarantee.

When it comes to a real estate closing, it’s no fun, if it’s not Easy.