How to Use Mary for Family Law

Some Example Ways To Use Mary

• Writing initial advice letter - you can upload all the documentation they’ve given yoand + meeting notes you wrote and have the details in one place ready to go when you write the advice.

• Affidavits.

• Create (in effect) a side by side view of each party’s version of the facts BY creating a new view for applicants vs respondents affidavits and selecting only their respective affidavits as the source document - and then opening two separate computer tabs of each view to view side by side.

• Chronologies → and every time you need to update a working chronology, you can just upload all new documentation and Mary automatically updates the chronology.

• Being handed an already existing matter from another firm, or another lawyer has gone on leave and their matter needs to be handled in their absence.

• Document splitting and auto-naming. Mary can take a single PDF with multiple, unorganised files, and it splits, categorises documents into it's individual documents. Which you then export back into your practice management system.

• Places where a matter is run by multiple people - if everybody uploads all documentation etc to Mary, then there is a single point of entry for everyone to understand where the case is at and who’s sent what correspondence etc.

  • You can understand the relationships between different parties through the fact explorer. For example, through asking the question, how does each person in this matter relate to the mother.

FAMILY LAW THEME USE CASES:

1. When writing an offer of settlement, you can instantly view all the things the parties agree/disagree on to understand what might have been said by a party previously etc - you could even create a ‘view’ with just the settlement proposals within them (so letters with offers + initiating applications etc) and click this theme to see just these.

2. If writing an affidavit just about parenting - you could select the parenting and children themes to remove all details about the property part of the matter during this specific review.

3. When filing a Notice of Risk, you could select the ‘violence & safety’ theme to see just those facts in a single place.

4. If you’ve picked up a new matter and you’d like to just see the procedural history and details about the parties, you can select both the ‘legal’ theme and ‘family details’ theme to just see these in isolation.

5. You could also create a view with just the supervised reports, and then filter to ‘violence & safety’ theme to just see where this has occurred during supervised visits.