Deterministic drafting, source-locked law, honest gates

Florida's 197 official forms — four numbers, not one

The Florida Supreme Court approves 197 family law forms, and they are uniform statewide. We do four different things with them, and the difference matters more than any single headline number — so all four are published here, derived from what is actually registered rather than written by hand.

Every form we serve is the genuine PDF from flcourts.gov, SHA-256 pinned; the fill surface refuses to complete a form whose bytes no longer match its pin. Filing mechanics vary by county — verify with your clerk.

Texas's official family-law forms — four numbers, not one

Texas publishes no single official catalog — the State Law Library says it plainly. So we measured the family-law universe instrument by instrument (291 byte-probed at the program's opening sweep) and publish what we do with it, derived from what is actually registered.

All 197 served instruments are SHA-256 pinned from texaslawhelp.org and txcourts.gov and re-verified byte-for-byte at the TX-F-9 close: zero drift, zero failures. Prove-up and filing mechanics vary by county — verify with your clerk.

FL / family-law is live as self-help legal information: publicly available law text, captured verbatim from official state sources and hash-verified. Platform content is not attorney-reviewed — legal information, not legal advice; independent attorney review of your own documents is available through the marketplace.

Claim words the gate enforces: "verbatim" · "source-locked" · "official" · "state-exact" · "law-exact". Gate state last checked July 7, 2026.

How a document gets made

1. 01

   Intake

   Structured questions per document type — plain language, one screen.

2. 02

   Deterministic assembly

   Applicable clauses selected by predicates and filled from answers. No model writes operative text, ever.

3. 03

   Retrieved citations

   Each clause's triggering sections resolve against the corpus; unsourced sections are shown without citation instead of being invented.

4. 04

   Validation

   Any bounded model output is checked for invented or dropped authority and rejected back to the deterministic skeleton on failure.

5. 05

   Deterministic review

   Completeness is scored against the specific statutory categories (e.g. the § 61.13 parenting-plan elements) plus placeholder and citation hygiene.

First registered templates: Marital Settlement Agreement · Parenting Agreement · Premarital Agreement · Mediation Position Summary · Attorney Hand-off Memo · Divorce Petition Companion · Response to Divorce Companion · Modification Companion · Records Request Letter · Hearing Exhibit Packet — mediation/review term sheets, deliberately not court filings. Where an official Supreme Court form controls a filing, the platform points to the official form instead of imitating it.

Every count derives from the engine code at render time — never typed by hand; the named FamilyBench suites prove each class fires, as a standing push gate.

Hover any cell for the engine's full reason. Gated cells name the real-world act that opens them (a Bar registration, a counsel determination) — a deploy never flips them. L4 consumer recommendations and L5 representation stay closed in every state by design: software proposes, the user decides, the lawyer advises. Corrections and error reports: the correction process.

Grounded drafts learn structure from real, counsel-authored public filings — never from law-firm marketing samples or commercial templates, which carry no court, no docket, no counsel of record, and no outcome. Three lanes feed the exemplar corpus, each disclosed here in its true state.

Public-record harvest — the committed allowlist

The harvester can only ever touch a source on this committed registry, and only once an owner-and-counsel access-terms review is recorded for it — portals whose terms forbid automated collection are never enabled. CO: Colorado posts appellate dockets and opinions publicly, but party briefs/filings are not served by a free public portal — the licensed connector lane covers Colorado.

Evaluated and excluded: Google Scholar — Case law — google.com/robots.txt carries 'Disallow: /scholar' (live-verified 2026-09-01) and Google Scholar publishes no API — automated collection is forbidden at the robots layer, so the allowlist law can never enable it. Its corpus is also judicial OPINIONS (authority a judge wrote), not counsel-authored filings, so it could not seed foundations even if collection were permitted; it remains an excellent MANUAL research tool for a human attorney. CourtListener / Free Law Project serves the same class of opinions through a real API whose terms permit automated access — already integrated behind the single-reader token, and now feeding OUTCOME CORROBORATION: when a docket's own entries show no ruling, the opinions lane looks for the deciding order so labels can disclose subsequently GRANTED / DENIED honestly.

Open-web discovery — real filings beyond the portals

Courts and legal-aid organizations post real filed documents and completed examples on the open web (live-verified 2026-09-01: a filed “In re the Marriage of” brief on courts.wa.gov, a court-published filled parenting-plan example, legal-aid completed-form guides). The discovery lane searches with committed, evidence-proven query shapes and a per-class policy: court and legal-aid hosts may be fetched through the same gates as the portal lane; law-firm pages become LEADS for counsel, never automated fetches; template mills are excluded whole. Open-web finds always cap at the counsel review queue — they never auto-verify. access-terms review pending

Licensed connectors — state trial courts at scale

• UniCourt (licensed API) keyed-dormant

  Licensed state and federal trial-court records — county-level exemplars at scale.

• Trellis (licensed API) keyed-dormant

  Licensed state trial-court dockets and filings — the same-county answer for state courts.

Harvest queue: dormant — no candidates have been collected (the registry above ships with every source disabled). Nothing harvested is ever served to a grounded run except through a counsel-reviewed, committed foundation pack, and every excerpt a run actually uses is SHA-256 pinned in the provenance ledger.

Every governed AI request writes an append-only audit row with no raw content — model id, prompt hash, retrieval-bundle hash, validator version, claim tiers, guardrail hits. The full published methodology and scorecards live on FamilyBench.