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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.

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.

151Filled from your answers

A questionnaire places what you type onto the genuine, byte-verified official PDF.

20Pinned and routed, no questionnaire

Orders a judge signs and papers this software should not interview a consumer into producing. The blank and its instructions are served; nothing is filled.

15Not offered to consumers

Attorney limited-appearance papers, attorney-issued subpoenas, an arrest instrument, and collaborative-law attorney and neutral instruments.

11Held for review

The injunction-for-protection petitions wait on a certified Florida domestic-violence advocate's review of the lane's copy and routing; one form has no fillable layer at all in the Court's publication.

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.

73Filled from your answers

A questionnaire places what you type onto the genuine, byte-verified official PDF — petitions, answers, orders you draft for the judge, and the temporary-orders packets.

124Pinned originals, print-and-complete

Instruments whose publication carries no fillable layer — plus the official Spanish and Vietnamese translations, served as pinned downloads by design.

17Guided interviews, routed

TexasLawHelp's guided forms run on Tyler Technologies' hosted interview platform. We link the official path and never clone it.

25Protective orders, held for review

The TexasLawHelp and OCA protective-order instruments wait on a certified domestic-violence advocate's review of this lane before any guided fill ships. Danger routes to /safety first, always.

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.

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

625 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.

InstrumentScopeOfficial sourcePhaseLoaded
Chapter 61Dissolution 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)1128
Chapter 742Determination of parentage — paternity establishment, disestablishment, related relief.Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)122
Chapter 741Marriage; domestic violence — licensure, prohibited marriages, and the domestic-violence definitions and injunction framework (741.28–741.31).Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)145
Chapter 88Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) — interstate support establishment/enforcement.Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)278
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)239
Chapter 751Temporary custody of minor children by extended family.Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)26
Chapter 63Adoption (family-court crossover).Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)30
Chapter 39 (crossover sections)Proceedings relating to children — dependency crossover concepts reached from family division cases.Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)30
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 compilation1109
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)148
Fla. Admin. Code Division 12E-1Department of Revenue child-support program administrative rules.Florida Administrative Code (flrules.org)20
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)25
Chapter 222 (homestead & exemptions overlap)Homestead and exemption sections that drive marital-home outcomes in dissolution.Online Sunshine (leg.state.fl.us)325
Federal reference setPKPA (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)30

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.

What each state may render — from code

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

CapabilityFL(D-gray-area-plus)TX(A-software-safe)NC(A-conditional-registration)AZ(B-licensed-preparer)CA(B-licensed-preparer)WA(B-licensed-preparer)NV(B-licensed-preparer)CO(B-licensed-preparer)
l2-fixed-templateopenopengatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgated
l2-user-directedopenopengatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgated
l3-analysisopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopen
l4-recommendationgatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgated
l5-representationgatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgatedgated

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)

1004/1004

Quote-verified share of legal claims

83%

Flagged — unverified, said openly

16

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.