FAMILY LAW SOFTWARE
FOR THE CANADIAN
LEGAL MARKET
SINCE 1997
Version 2025.1.0 is now available and includes all confirmed and estimated 2025 tax and benefit numbers.
What Makes ChildView the Best Tool for Support Calculations?
Flexible Section 3 Child Support: ChildView can calculate section 3 child support for complex and varying parenting arrangements.
Accurate Section 7 and Spousal Support: In section 7 child support and spousal support calculations, ChildView calculates all government benefits, including one time payments, utilizes blended benefit calculations and provides the option to use the base taxation years to ensure precise calculations.
Advanced Life Insurance tool to secure support obligations: Accurate child support calculations are just the beginning. Our powerful and flexible life insurance calculator goes further, estimating the minimum life insurance coverage necessary to secure a party's child and spousal support obligations.
Comprehensive Retroactive/Arrears Child Support: ChildView handles retroactive or past-due child support calculations for multiple years, with options to include payments, interest and create payment arrangements.
Transparent Gross-Up Calculations: ChildView provides neutral gross-up calculations based on the party’s actual resources, with full disclosure and detailed reports.
Detailed Disclosure and Export Capabilities: ChildView ensures complete transparency by providing full disclosure and detailed breakdowns of most calculations. Users may export reports to PDF or (where appropriate) Excel for customized analysis.
Next-level financial tools that offer innovative analysis, what-if scenarios, and detailed reports. ​
Coming Soon
Integrated Matrimonial Property Statement and Division
Our tool simplifies the complex process of creating a matrimonial property statement and managing asset division, all within a single, intuitive interface.
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Key Features and Benefits:​​
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Automated and Customizable Asset Division: Experience the efficiency of automatic property division calculations and maintain complete control with the ability to easily adjust calculated amounts or percentages.
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Instant updates and automatic division recalculation: Easily switch property values from estimated to actual, triggering automatic asset division recalculation.
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Clear and Comparative Analysis: Gain immediate insights with a side-by-side comparison of the current property statement and the proposed division. This visual representation enhances understanding and facilitates informed decision-making.​
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Seamless Data Export for Advanced Analysis: Export all data effortlessly to Excel for in-depth analysis, customized reporting, and enhanced financial modeling.
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Integrated Court Form Access and Data Population: Access relevant court forms directly within the tool, and automatically populate them with your calculated data, saving time and reducing errors.
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FEATURES
Save Time with our
Retroactive/Arrears Calculator
Quickly estimate the amount of retroactive or past-due child support owed over a specified range of dates.
Our tool features:
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Dynamic recalculation: As a child reaches the maximum age of support, the calculator automatically adjusts the section 3 table amounts. No manual updates are needed.
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Automatically calculates Section 7: Accurately calculates Section 7 net amounts, considering each party's proportionate share of expenses for the calendar year. Current and prior amounts maybe edited.
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Guideline Income flexibility: Accommodates various income scenarios,
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Customizable Support: Allows for variations from the table amount and use of ChildView's "Enhanced Table" for complex parenting arrangements.
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Payment Arrangements: Consider various payment options to address arrears.
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Interest Calculations and Disclosures: Calculate interest precisely using simple or compound methods with full disclosure.
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Export Data for Analysis: Export data to Excel for in-depth analysis and customization.
SSAG Calculator
As an integral part of the ChildView program, this tool will calculate the suggested range of spousal support based on the formulas described in the “Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines” paper commissioned by the federal Department of Justice. The tool provides flexible input to address special situations, along with detailed reporting.
Gross Up Calculator
This tool calculates the appropriate, equivalent pre-tax amount of cash based and foreign sourced incomes as required by the Child Support Guidelines. The calculated result is based on the party’s specific situation, the original source of the income and the desired taxable source.
Fully Integrated Family Law Court Forms and Editor
The fully integrated courts forms module provides users with the capability to create, pre-populate and edit the necessary family law court forms. The Court forms can be customize to a firm's format for font size, style and more. The built-in editor offers faster input through tab cycling. Firm specific templates may be easily added to the module.
10 Year Cash Projection
Building upon ChildView’s well-received cash analysis report, this feature allows for the creation of projected cash flow estimates spanning two to ten years for both parties involved.
Feature Highlights:
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Customizable federal and provincial indexation rates for each year
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Income changes for each year,
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Input of budget of expenses that are year-specific,
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Detailed year by year drill-down reports,
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Export data to Excel for in-depth analysis and further customization.​​​
Utilizing this tool may aid in determining how to move within the SSAG range, which is crucial when children are leaving the spousal support equation.
Enhanced with more customizable inputs
Life Insurance
Calculator
ChildView’s robust and flexible life insurance calculator estimates the minimum amount of life insurance needed to cover a party’s child and spousal support obligations.
This versatile tool helps you account for future expenses, such as university tuition for children, even if they're currently in primary or secondary school.
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Results are provided in total or on a child by child basis and allow for differing support cessations.
Budget of Expenses
Financial clarity is essential for making informed decisions.
Impress your clients by using ChildView to create a comprehensive overview of their financial health. By merging their budget of expenses with their current cash projections, you'll provide them with the monthly cash position to understand their financial situation before and after support calculations.
Fully Integrated and Comprehensive Help File
Also included in the software is a comprehensive, fully integrated Help file which outlines not only how to use the software, but how the software interacts with the Child Support Guidelines (CSG), the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG), and the income tax and benefits considerations that are integral to the calculations. The Help file is automatically updated with every ChildView software release.