Authority Engine

Deterministic drafting, source-locked law, honest gates

The engine that drafts and reviews family documents runs on the same architecture as the fleet's estate engine: verbatim statutes with version hashes, citations that are retrieved rather than generated, clause assembly a model never authors, and a fail-closed release gate whose live status and mode are published below. Legal information, not legal advice.

D1 · Verbatim or absent

Law text enters the corpus byte-for-byte from official sources, dual-source cross-verified and SHA-256 hash-pinned. A section we haven't loaded simply doesn't exist to the engine — gaps are never filled by a model.

D2 · Citations are retrieved

Every citation resolves live against the source-locked corpus, carrying its source URL and law-version hash. Unsourced sections are not citable anywhere in the product.

D3 · Fail-closed release gate

Claim words like 'verbatim', 'official', and 'state-exact' are code-enforced — they render only for a package that has passed every gate rung. The gate defaults to closed, and only a human can set it.

Release gate — FL / family-law

Released

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.

✓Law inventory completeEvery target chapter, rule set, form set, and admin division enumerated from official indexes.

✓Verbatim text loadedSection text captured byte-for-byte from the official source — never paraphrased, never typed from memory.

✓Official source verifiedFetched from the government source of record (leg.state.fl.us / flcourts.gov / flrules.org).

✓Secondary source cross-checkedIndependently corroborated against a second reputable source.

✓Hash verifiedSHA-256 normalized-text hashes pin the exact law version every citation refers to.

✓Rule engine mappedSections wired to rule modules, clause templates, and review checks.

·Attorney review completeA licensed Florida attorney signs off on the package, bound to the corpus hash.

✓Production release allowedThe final human-set switch. Only then may the product say 'source-locked'.

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

Corpus inventory

The Florida family-law load map

491 verbatim sources loaded

What the ingest pipeline loads, in order. Counts are live from the corpus table — zero means the target is enumerated ahead of loading, and the engine treats it as absent rather than guessing.

Instrument	Scope	Official source	Phase	Loaded
Chapter 61	Dissolution of marriage; support; time-sharing — the core: grounds & procedure, equitable distribution (61.075), alimony (61.08), parenting & time-sharing (61.13), relocation (61.13001), child support guidelines (61.30), UCCJEA (Part II).	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	1	128
Chapter 742	Determination of parentage — paternity establishment, disestablishment, related relief.	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	1	22
Chapter 741	Marriage; domestic violence — licensure, prohibited marriages, and the domestic-violence definitions and injunction framework (741.28–741.31).	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	1	45
Chapter 88	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) — interstate support establishment/enforcement.	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	2	78
Chapter 409 (child-support program sections)	Department of Revenue Title IV-D child support program — administrative establishment/enforcement sections.	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	2	39
Chapter 751	Temporary custody of minor children by extended family.	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	2	6
Chapter 63	Adoption (family-court crossover).	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	3	0
Chapter 39 (crossover sections)	Proceedings relating to children — dependency crossover concepts reached from family division cases.	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	3	0
Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure (12-series)	The complete rule set — incl. mandatory disclosure (12.285), parenting coordination, mediation, general magistrates, and forms authority.	The Florida Bar — official rules compilation	1	95
Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Forms (12.9xx)	The official self-help form set — petitions, answers, financial affidavits, parenting plan, worksheets.	Florida Courts (flcourts.gov)	1	48
Fla. Admin. Code Division 12E-1	Department of Revenue child-support program administrative rules.	Florida Administrative Code (flrules.org)	2	0
Chapter 732 (family-law overlap sections)	The estate-planning sections every Florida family lawyer touches: effect of dissolution on wills and on beneficiary designations, spousal rights waivers in marital agreements, homestead devise interplay.	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	2	5
Chapter 222 (homestead & exemptions overlap)	Homestead and exemption sections that drive marital-home outcomes in dissolution.	Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)	3	25
Federal reference set	PKPA (28 U.S.C. § 1738A), full faith & credit for support orders (28 U.S.C. § 1738B), IV-D framework references.	U.S. Code (uscode.house.gov)	3	0

How a document gets made

01
Intake
Structured questions per document type — plain language, one screen.
02
Deterministic assembly
Applicable clauses selected by predicates and filled from answers. No model writes operative text, ever.
03
Retrieved citations
Each clause's triggering sections resolve against the corpus; unsourced sections are shown without citation instead of being invented.
04
Validation
Any bounded model output is checked for invented or dropped authority and rejected back to the deterministic skeleton on failure.
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: Settlement Term Sheet · Parenting Term Sheet · Prenuptial Agreement Term Sheet · Mediation Position Summary · Attorney Hand-off Memo · Divorce Petition Companion · Response to Divorce Companion · Modification Companion — 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.

Deterministic coverage

Full breakdown + the bench that proves it →

Filing Check — defect scan: 8 governing rules cited Clerk-rejection decoder: 11 rejection causes classified Risk-Trigger Engine: 14 fact-pattern classes Agreement Stress Test: 18 statutory element checks Procedure Coprocessor: 6 pre-action requirement patterns Record Pressure-Test detector: 7 weakness classes Alimony-factor issue-spotter: 8 § 61.08 factor areas Case Readiness: 6 scored modules

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.

What each state may render — from code

the same engine the pages ask · docs: the Drafting Capability Plan

Capability	FL(D-gray-area-plus)	TX(A-software-safe)	NC(A-conditional-registration)	AZ(B-licensed-preparer)	CA(B-licensed-preparer)	WA(B-licensed-preparer)
l2-fixed-template	open	open	gated	gated	gated	gated
l2-user-directed	open	open	gated	gated	gated	gated
l3-analysis	open	open	open	open	open	open
l4-recommendation	gated	gated	gated	gated	gated	gated
l5-representation	gated	gated	gated	gated	gated	gated

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.

Trust telemetry

published baseline scorecards — platform-wide aggregates arm with the service key at launch

Bench checks (standing gate)

613/613

Quote-verified share of legal claims

83%

Flagged — unverified, said openly

Baseline ship bars

B1–B4 met

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.

This page reads the live gate and corpus tables — it shows the same truth the engine enforces. Legal information, not legal advice.