Enter a client’s facts once. We carry them across every Ontario family court form.
Build one case profile per matter, in plain language. Canadian Formatters fills it into 152 Ontario family court forms and exports the official court .docx, ready to sign and file. For sole practitioners and freelance lawyers, it is $30 a month.
Representing yourself in family court? Apply for the beta.
Live preview. Your client fills in the intake form; every court form opens filled from it.
Who it is for
Built for a practice of one
Sole practitioners
You run a family law practice on your own. The Application, the Financial Statement and the conference brief must all agree, and keeping them consistent by hand is unbilled work on every matter.
Freelance and contract lawyers
You take matters from several firms or clients and want a tool of your own, not a seat on somebody else’s licence. One login, one monthly price, every matter in one place.
Licensed paralegals
You prepare family court documents within the scope of your licence. The same plan, the same forms and the same price apply to you.
How it works
From the facts to a filed form, in four steps.
Build the case profile
You do it once per case, in plain language. The parties, the children, the court, the file number, and the finances.
Find the right form
Describe your situation. We search the forms' own published descriptions and show you what matches, ranked. Each one opens already filled from the profile. It suggests. The choice stays yours.
Fill in what is left
The profile answers the parts every form shares. What is left is what only this filing can answer, and you are walked through it a section at a time, with the form’s own guidance beside each question.
Print, sign, and file
Review the finished document. Export the official Ontario .docx and file it. No re-typing.
What you get
Everything a family court filing actually needs.
Your forms never contradict each other
Update an income figure or an address once. The change lands on every form that uses it. The Application and the Financial Statement agree without cross-checking, so a mismatch never sends the filing back.
An assistant that cannot invent an answer
Ask what a section wants, which forms go with it, or what happens after you file. Every answer comes from that form’s own guidance. It shows you the source. When the form does not cover the question, it says so. It also reads your draft and asks about claims with no date or detail behind them. It never writes the document for you.
Every Ontario courthouse, and its filing address
Search all 144 courthouses in the ministry's directory by name or by city. Narrow the list to the court that hears your matter. Pick one, and we put the court office address on every form in the case that prints it.
The forms a family practice files
Every export is the court’s own template as a .docx. You review it in Word, sign it, and file it like any other document.
Search 215 forms by number or by name.
Plus 45 Rules of Civil Procedure forms, including the rule 61 appeal forms. Plus 7 Solicitors Act forms for assessing a solicitor’s account, 5 court fee waiver forms, and 6 under the Children’s Law Reform Act. 215 forms in all. See all features.
Pricing
One plan. Simple monthly pricing. Cancel any time.
Filling forms is free before you subscribe. The subscription unlocks exports.
Solo practitioners
Available now- Fill any form free. The subscription unlocks the filled export
- Up to 10 active client cases, then $5 a month for each additional active case
- Archived cases can always be opened and exported, at no charge
- Client files are kept until you delete them. The inactivity timer that clears abandoned personal cases does not apply
- Card payment through Stripe. Cancel any time
This plan is $30 a month, you can stop whenever you like, and your data stays yours to export or delete. Full terms are in the Terms of Service.
How to get started
Three steps. The first is an email.
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Email us for your access code
Tell us your name and whether you are a lawyer or a paralegal. We reply by email.
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Create your account and enter the code
Sign up with your email or Google. The welcome screen asks for the code and sets up your practice workspace.
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Subscribe from Billing
Open Account, then Billing, and set up card payment. Exports unlock as soon as the subscription is active. Filling forms is free before that.
Checkout opens with Stripe from your Billing page. You see the full price before anything is charged.
Before you subscribe, open a finished document
Real exports from the real templates. One invented matter, filled across all four.
What stays with you
- You review every document this tool generates before you sign it or file it.
- It does not check a filing for legal sufficiency, completeness, or strategy.
- Your professional obligations to your client are unchanged by using it.
Representing yourself? Apply for the beta. A clinic or firm with staff needs organizational licensing — contact us.
Privacy
Your case stays yours.
Hosted in Canada
Your case data is stored on Canadian servers. Text you send to the optional AI features goes to a third-party provider.
PIPEDA-aligned
Built around Canadian privacy law. Your data is never sold, shared, or used without your consent.
Your data is yours
Export or delete a whole case at any time. There is no lock-in.
We are not a law firm
We help you make the paperwork. The decisions stay yours.
FAQ
Common questions
Is this legal advice?
No. What it does: fills the court's published template from answers you type, searches published form guidance and shows you the source, flags a statement that makes a claim with no date or example behind it, and shows a factual template you fill in yourself. What it does not do: choose which forms to file, tell you what to ask the court for, apply law to your situation, or write your story for you.
Will the court accept documents made here?
Your export is generated from the court's own published template, and we re-check those templates against the ministry's pages every week. Whether a filing is accepted is the court's decision, and it turns on more than the template. The document also has to be complete, correct, and filed under the right rule. That part is yours.
Which forms are supported?
152 of the 153 forms published under the Ontario Family Law Rules. They run from the Application (Form 8) and the Answer (Form 10) to financial statements, motions, affidavits, and conference briefs. Every form comes with a plain-language guide in your account. The 45 Rules of Civil Procedure forms we support include the rule 61 appeal forms for the Court of Appeal and the Divisional Court. Alberta and British Columbia family courts are on the roadmap.
I am a lawyer or paralegal. How do I subscribe?
Email us for an access code. Create your account with your email or Google, then enter the code at the welcome screen to set up your practice workspace. Open Billing in your account settings to set up card payment. The plan is $30 a month and includes 10 active cases. Each additional active case is $5 a month. You can cancel at any time.
What counts as an active case?
Any case you have not archived. Archived cases can always be opened and exported, at no charge. Restore one to make changes, and it counts as active again.
Can my staff use my account?
Not today. The plan is one seat for one practitioner. An assistant seat is the change practitioners ask us for most and it is not built yet, so tell us if you need one. Clinics and firms with staff can contact us about organizational licensing.
What happens to my information?
We store your case on Canadian servers and handle it in line with PIPEDA, Canada's privacy law. We never sell your data. You can export or delete your whole case whenever you want. In a personal account we delete a document 180 days after you last worked on it, we warn you in the app before that happens, and you can put it off twice. In a clinic or professional workspace documents are kept until the account holder deletes them or the account, because professionals have to retain client files. The optional AI features are the exception: when you use one, the text you send it goes to a third-party AI provider outside our servers, which we do not permit to train on it.
What does the AI assistant actually do?
Two kinds of help, both optional. It reads what you write and asks you questions about it: which arrangement you mean, what date something happened, which of the children this is about, or whether a paragraph belongs in a different section of the form. It never labels your writing and it never writes your story for you. It also answers questions about any form. Ask what the form is for, what a section is asking, and what happens after you file. The core tool works fully without it.
Enter the facts once. File the rest of the matter from them.
The solo practitioner plan is $30 a month and includes 10 active cases. Email us for an access code, create your account, and subscribe from Billing when you are ready to export.
Representing yourself instead? Apply for the beta.