The logic goes like this; Marital Lifestyle figures for the supported spouse are likely to include the supporting spouse’s expenses that will not be paid by the supported spouse after the divorce. Normally, marital lifestyle figures play a critical role in alimony determination, but these figures are meant to include marital lifestyle of the supported spouse only.

The proposed supported spouse’s attorney questions the supported spouse, who says, “Yes, those are my expenses.” Then, the other party’s attorney should point out that the line item is, in fact, for the entire family before the separation. The supported spouse is put in a situation where he/she has to subtract from each line item, expenditures for the supporting spouse and the children. After all, why should the supported spouse receive alimony for expenditures that he/she would not and could not incur post judgment? However, is this common flaw in marital lifestyle budget presentations picked up and argued by lawyers regularly?

As your technology provider, we routinely work with lawyers and pro-actively provide practice solutions. We cannot and do not practice law, but we do provide you tools to solve issues like marital lifestyle and alimony issues very easily within our CIS software, New Jersey’s most popular child support program.

In your CIS program, section Part-D, click on “Show Individual Historical Expenditure.” Here, you can breakdown marital expenses – Expenses for the plaintiff only or for the defendant and children. You can then print a separate Lifestyle Expenditure report, which will show five columns side by side and is ready to enter as a trial exhibit, for an Early Settlement Panel or Economic Mediation. (Click here for an example sheet).

For trial preparation, have the litigant break down the marital lifestyle figures individually, so you do not count the supporting spouse’s expenses and the children’s expenses in the supported spouse’s lifestyle figures, thereby avoiding the aforementioned trap.

While we are on this topic, for the purpose of breakdown, children’s expenditures might be less critical because they are not expected to have separate expenses in each category. However, categorizing children’s expenses separately may be helpful because they will be useful for other purposes, such as quantifying extraordinary expenses for children, i.e. automobile insurance.

To learn more about this topic as well as many other program features you may not be utilizing or to watch an overview video, visit CIS Software’s web page.

But, let’s be candid.  Isn’t it equally true that we can give one case to five lawyers, and you’re going to give us five different divorce settlements?

Every lawyer likes to be original.  It’s part of the style that goes with the profession.  Call it ‘seeking a competitive edge.’

What if we told you that you could have the benefits of automated divorce settlement software with the perk of customizing the output to your liking?  Just click on this two minute video about Easy Soft’s divorce settlement software to see for yourself.

Easy Soft’s divorce settlement software couldn’t make your job easier.  Start with one entry of common data elements from mother, father, child essentials to budget items, to assets and liabilities.  Click on one button to select the form you want populated, and by the time you hit print you have a draft.  If the draft is to your liking, you’re done.

The Easy Soft divorce settlement software has quite a bit of flexibility already built in.  For example, would you prefer to show your client a “Tax Analysis Summary” using figures or a “Tax Analysis Summary Chart” using a bar graph?  Or, for example, would you like to show your client a stream of alimony payments over time or an alimony buyout figure?

But, if you still want to add a little personalization, Easy Soft uses Microsoft Word as its platform.  You can edit the Easy Soft draft document the same way you do any other Word document.  The big difference is that you don’t have to start from scratch when you’re working with any of the divorce settlement software from Easy Soft’s product suite.

With thousands of divorce lawyer clients, Easy Soft writes family law software based on what our attorneys tell us they want to see in divorce settlement software.  We even back our products with a 30-day money back guarantee.

Easy Soft may well be the one associate you can have in your office that doesn’t cramp your style.

But why are these antiques cluttering the top of your desk when you could have Easy Soft divorce software on your desktop?

Put down your pencil and pick up Easy Soft, the divorce software with automated financial calculations.

With Easy Soft’s programs, you can benefit from automatic divorce calculations that will cut your work from hours into minutes, while improving your accuracy.

Perhaps you are using EzSupport-NY and you’re entering assets and liabilities into the NY networth statement – three cars, one house with a mortgage and a home equity line of credit, one time-share, and five credit cards.  Erase any thought of using scrap paper on the side.  By the time you’ve entered this information into this divorce settlement software, it’s already added up.  Before you can click on print, accurate totals are ready to go for your networth statement.

Or let’s say you’re using EzSupport-PA and you want to make a PA child support calculation.  Simply input the income of each party, filing status, exemptions, and non-standard deductions, and let this software run the PA child support calculation through the statutory formula.   If you want to see variations, go ahead and change variables like the number of overnights per year and simply click on ‘compare.”  This PA family law software will instantly show you a worksheet comparing any changes against the original input information.

All of Easy Soft’s family law software maximizes the computer’s automation of routine math calculations for budgets, assets, liabilities, and support calculations.

You might not make a mistake on 2 + 2 = 4.  But, do you really want to take a chance that you’ll end up having to erase that $5,437.82 + $6,248.23 = $10,686.05 after you already divided it by 2 and got $5,343.03, instead of $5,843.03?  For the price to your client of that one mistake, you could have purchased Easy Soft’s divorce settlement software and had both money and piece-of-mind to spare.