The record is ready
before you ask for it.
Civly keeps your client's co-parenting communication, calendar and expenses in one timestamped place — and your client hands you a complete, timestamped export in a click — one you or opposing counsel can check independently. Whether any record is admitted is always the court's decision. Free for professionals, $79 a year for your client — with the AI message help included rather than sold as a premium tier.
Every export carries a SHA-256 hash and a code you or opposing counsel can check at civly.com/verify, without an account and without calling us. That matters more here than usual: Civly launched in 2026 and is rarely named in orders yet, so nothing on this page asks you to extend it credit.
of AU/NZ family law practitioners have recommended a co-parenting app
have ever actually used one
We'd rather you tried it than took our word for it.
In a survey of Australian and New Zealand family law professionals, three quarters had recommended one of these apps and barely a third had ever opened one. When the researchers sat thirty of them down to actually use the products, nearly all revised their recommendations downward — confusing calendars, notifications so poor that parents went back to texting, and a worry that for high-conflict families the apps added conflict rather than removing it.
That's a fair thing to be sceptical about. So don't take our word for it — email us and we'll send back a real sample export, exactly as your client would hand it to you, with a code you can check yourself at civly.com/verify. Self-serve professional accounts are in development; today it's a person and an inbox.
Source: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (2023) — Irving, Heard, Smyth, Payne & Althor, a study of thirty Australian and New Zealand family dispute resolution practitioners. We have not seen an equivalent US survey.
Built for the person who has to file it.
Today, your client can export the complete timestamped record and hand it to you directly. The dedicated professional portal below — read access, caseload view, escalation flags — is in development; email us for early access.
A record you don't have to assemble
A dated chronology of messages, calendar entries and expenses, exported as a single PDF. No screenshot chains, no gaps, no arguing about what was sent when.
Read access, granted by your client
See the thread as it happens rather than in a panic the week before a hearing. Your client controls the grant and can revoke it. In development — email us for early access.
Escalation you can see coming
Conflict patterns surface across weeks, so you know which case is heading for an emergency motion before it files itself. In development — email us for early access.
Message assistance, before it's sent
Your client drafts what they feel and sends something you'd be comfortable reading aloud in court. The rewrite is theirs — they choose it, edit it, and remain the author.
Every client in one caseload view
Cases, activity and open items in one dashboard, instead of scattered across your inbox at 11pm. In development — email us for early access.
A record the other side can check
Every certified export carries a SHA-256 hash and a verification code anyone can look up at civly.com/verify — opposing counsel included. No account needed, no call to us.
Free, permanently, for professionals
Attorneys, judges, mediators, GALs, evaluators and parenting coordinators. No seat cost, no per-case fee, no upsell.
“I'm not ordering a $300 app on this parent.”
Fair. The tiers that actually include writing help are where these platforms get expensive — OurFamilyWizard's Writing Assistant starts at $149.99 a year per parent, and TalkingParents gates its Sentiment Scanner and Writing Assist behind a ~$353 Ultimate plan. Civly is $79 a year per parent with all of it included, because de-escalation before the message is sent is the whole product.
Your professional account is free — the parents pay for their own subscriptions, and you get the exports, the verify codes and a person at hello@civly.com who answers.
- Cheapest tier that includes AI writing help
- Civly — the only plan$79
- OurFamilyWizard Essentials$149.99
- TalkingParents Ultimate~$353
- Per parent, per year. List prices, August 2026. Cheaper base tiers exist at each — without the writing help.
Paste this into the entry.
Drafted to be adapted, not filed as-is. It covers the provisions that tend to matter later: who pays, exclusive use, response time, record integrity, and professional access. Adjust to your jurisdiction and your matter.
CO-PARENTING COMMUNICATION 1. Platform. Within fourteen (14) days of the date of this Order, both parties shall establish accounts on Civly (www.civly.com) and shall maintain those accounts until the parties' youngest child reaches the age of majority, or until further Order of this Court. 2. Cost. Each party shall maintain their own subscription at their own expense, except as allocated below. Cost allocated as follows: ____________________ 3. Exclusive use. All communication between the parties concerning the minor child(ren) — including scheduling, exchanges, medical and educational matters, expenses, and requests to deviate from the parenting plan — shall occur through the Civly platform. Direct calls, SMS, email, and third-party messaging shall be reserved for genuine emergencies involving the health or safety of a child. 4. Response time. Each party shall review messages at least once every twenty-four (24) hours and shall respond to any message requiring a response within forty-eight (48) hours. 5. Records. The parties shall not delete, alter, or attempt to alter any entry. The platform's timestamped record shall be available to both parties and may be submitted to this Court. 6. Professional access. Each party shall grant read access to their counsel of record. The parties shall additionally grant access to any Guardian ad Litem, custody evaluator, parenting coordinator, or mediator appointed in this matter upon that professional's request. 7. Conduct. Communication shall be limited to matters concerning the child(ren) and shall remain businesslike in tone. The parties are directed to use the platform's message assistance tools before sending communications drafted during periods of conflict. 8. Non-compliance. Failure to comply with this provision may be considered by the Court in any subsequent proceeding concerning parenting time or allocation of parental responsibilities.
This is a drafting template offered to licensed practitioners, not legal advice, and Civly is not a law firm. Counsel is responsible for conforming any provision to local rules and the facts of the case. Want a Word version or a variant for a specific jurisdiction? Ask and we'll send one.
See the export before you recommend anything.
Email us and we'll send the real thing — a sample case exported exactly as your client would hand it to you. Professional accounts are free and self-serve access is coming; today it's a person and an inbox.