You have a court order. It has rules in it. Travel notice requirements, right of first refusal terms, holiday schedules, expense ratios. Every single one of those rules lives in a PDF that nobody but your attorney has read in full.
No co-parenting app reads court orders. Zero. They treat the order as a document to store, not a document to execute. Parents track notice deadlines manually in their phone calendar. Miss one by a day — and it ends up in a motion.
Upload your PDF. We extract every enforceable rule we can find.
Our extraction pipeline uses OCR technology to read your PDF and a language model trained on thousands of US family court documents to identify what matters.
Custody Schedule
The rotation pattern extracted from your order. Once activated, custody blocks automatically populate your shared calendar for as far ahead as the order specifies.
Notice Periods
Any advance notice requirement: before travel, before childcare changes, before school decisions. We calculate the exact deadline for each upcoming trigger event and start counting down.
Holiday Schedule
Which parent gets which holidays, whether they alternate by odd or even year, and how far in advance holiday trade requests need to be submitted.
Right of First Refusal
If a parent will be absent more than a set number of hours during their custody time, they must offer that time to the co-parent before third-party care. We watch your calendar for events that trigger this.
Travel Restrictions
Notice required before out-of-state or international travel. We detect travel events as you add them to the calendar, calculate the deadline, and generate a pre-written legal notice ready to send with one tap.
Expense Splits
Percentage ratios by category. Once confirmed, these feed directly into the expense module — no manual setup needed.
Communication Restrictions
Limitations on how or when communication should happen. Logged as an active visible rule for both parents’ awareness.
Third-Party Restrictions
Rules about new partners, relatives, or other parties. Logged as active rules, not automated — because the app cannot monitor who is physically present.
After extraction, every identified clause appears on its own review card showing: the verbatim source text highlighted from the PDF, the page number it came from, the system’s plain-English interpretation, and a preview of what rule it will generate.
Drop your court order PDF into the app. Our OCR pipeline reads every page, including scanned documents and older orders with inconsistent formatting.
Each identified clause appears with its source text, page number, and our plain-English interpretation. Anything flagged below 70% confidence requires an extra confirmation before it can proceed.
Confirm the interpretation, edit it if we got something wrong, or dismiss it if it is not relevant. Nothing goes live until you say so.
You can confirm the interpretation, edit it if we got something wrong, or dismiss it if it is not relevant. Anything we extracted with less than 70% confidence is clearly flagged and requires an extra confirmation before it can be activated. Nothing goes live until you say so.
Every morning at 6am in your timezone, the rule engine checks your active rules against your current calendar. It looks ahead seven days and generates alerts for anything approaching a deadline.
When a required action is not completed before its deadline, a compliance violation record is created automatically. It contains the rule text, what was required, what happened instead, and the precise timestamp. It cannot be edited or deleted by either parent.
On Pro, violations automatically appear in every court report covering that period. Your attorney receives a structured violation timeline instead of spending hours reconstructing one from memory.
The violation log is a legal record. It protects both parents: if your co-parent misses a deadline, it is documented. If you miss a deadline, it is documented. The record is neutral.
Court orders get amended. When you upload a modification order, the app compares it against the existing one. At any point, the active rule set is the merged, de-duplicated interpretation of your complete order history — not just the most recent document.
“I missed the 14-day notice window by one day. My ex used it in a motion.”
What changed after switchingJames had a court order with four interlocking rules: right of first refusal after 4 hours absence, 14-day travel notice, alternating spring break, and a 40% medical expense ratio. No app could read it. He tracked everything manually.
After uploading his order to Parenting Path, twelve clauses became active rules. The next time he created a vacation event on the shared calendar, the travel notice alert fired instantly. The app generated the pre-written notice with dates, destination, and emergency contact pre-filled. He tapped Send. The timestamp was preserved.
He has not missed a compliance deadline since.
Court order upload is available on Standard and Pro. The Standard plan includes one active court order with full rule activation, monitoring, and violation logging.