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divorce-practice-stephane-boghossian

AI co-counsel for divorce and family-law attorneys — a jurisdiction-portable scaffold spanning the full matter lifecycle. Eight operating modes mirror how a matter actually moves: intake and onboarding, financial disclosure, children and support, property division and QDRO, discovery and document review, drafting, negotiation and mediation prep, and court prep — plus post-judgment modification and enforcement. The methodology is jurisdiction-agnostic: it forces real, verifiable research for every local form, formula, or rule rather than inventing one, handling common-law, community-property, c

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npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill divorce-practice-stephane-boghossian --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

Facts
Files in the skill folder: 2
SKILL.md size: 25 KB
Bundled scripts: none
Version: 0.1.0
Declared author: Stephane Boghossian
Path: skills/divorce-practice-stephane-boghossian/SKILL.md
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Where it comes from
Stars: 618
Language: Python

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Review
written from the skill's own SKILL.md · Aug 5, 2026

What it does

AI-driven co-counsel for divorce and family-law attorneys, providing a jurisdiction-portable scaffold that covers the full matter lifecycle across eight operating modes: intake and onboarding, financial disclosure, children and support, property division and QDRO, discovery and document review, drafting, negotiation and mediation prep, and court prep, plus post-judgment modification and enforcement. It emphasizes privilege, requires real local sources for forms and rules, and supports drafting, analysis, organization, and pressure-testing. It is not the lawyer.

How it works

The skill operates as structured modes guiding the attorney through a matter. It begins with Mode 0 Intake & Onboarding to capture core facts (parties, marriage date, jurisdiction, income, assets, debts, goals) and produce a case-fact sheet, a first-pass timeline, a conflict check, and a risk/scope flag. Mode 1 generates a jurisdictional financial-disclosure package (financial-affidavit draft, balance sheet with separate/marital characterization, income determination, bank-flow analysis, and a dual-affidavit variance pass). Mode 2 creates child-support calculations, a parenting plan, a best-interest memo, and a risk gap audit. Mode 3 delivers a property division analysis and QDRO scaffolding, including retirement-division framing. Mode 4 develops discovery requests, a mandatory-disclosure gap analysis, issue-tagged document summaries with citations, and contradiction detection. The workflow is designed to carry core facts across modes and reveal what remains to confirm locally. The instruction emphasizes verifying local forms, schedules, and guidelines and annotates inputs like LOCALLY where needed.

When to use it

Use when assisting a family-law attorney on a divorce matter, especially to structure intake, financials, parenting arrangements, asset division, discovery, drafting, negotiation prep, and court preparation. The workflow triggers occur as the matter progresses through the eight modes, with prompts to confirm local forms and guidelines and to escalate on safety concerns.

What it can touch

The skill references jurisdictional forms and guidelines and requires local verification for items such as the local form structure, income period, guideline models, and disclosure rules. It emphasizes carrying forward core facts and annotating LOCALLY where needed. It also surfaces when forensic accounting or pension valuation is warranted and when specialized QDRO drafting is required.

Caveats

It stresses privilege considerations and the need for attorney direction, no-training terms, and no disclosure of client-identifying content unless privilege and platform terms allow. It requires the attorney to confirm locally for every jurisdiction-specific fact, and it cautions against relying on AI for actual legal advice without supervision. It flags hard escalation for DV, hidden assets, contested custody with safety concerns, and pro se users to redirect to jurisdiction-specific resources.

From the SKILL.md

# /divorce-practice — AI Co-Counsel for Divorce & Family-Law Attorneys You are assisting a **family-law attorney** (or a paralegal working under one) on a divorce or related family-law matter. You are the drafting, analysis, organization, and strategy layer. **The attorney owns every legal judgment, every number that goes in a filing, and the decision to file.** Your job is to make them faster and more thorough — never to replace their judgment or to act as the client's lawyer. Read the **Privilege & Ethics Gate** before doing anything else. It is not boilerplate — it is the reason this skill exists and the line that separates safe use from malpractice. --- ## The Privilege & Ethics Gate (read every session, never skip) State the relevant parts of this the first time the user engages on a matter, and any time they are about to paste client material. ### 1. Privilege is fragile, and public AI breaks it In a **2026 U.S. federal ruling** (Southern District of New York, reported as *United States v. Heppner*), a court addressed for the first time, squarely, whether conversations with a public AI chatbot are protected by **attorney-client privilege** or the **work-product doctrine**. Th

What's inside
Steps it walks through
  1. The Privilege & Ethics Gate (read every session, never skip)
  2. 1. Privilege is fragile, and public AI breaks it
  3. 2. The escape hatch — and why this skill is built around it
  4. 3. The "pause before you paste" rule
  5. 4. Accuracy is the attorney's responsibility (anti-hallucination)
  6. 5. Billing & disclosure (US bar guidance, 2024–2026)
  7. 6. Hard escalate-first triggers (surface, then stop)
  8. Jurisdiction protocol (this is what makes the skill portable)
  9. The matter as one operating system
  10. The eight operating modes
  11. Mode 0 — Intake & client onboarding
  12. Mode 1 — Financial disclosure (affidavits, schedules, income)
  13. Mode 2 — Children: custody, parenting plan, child support
  14. Mode 3 — Property division & retirement / QDRO
Ships with 1 file
  • README.md
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What does the divorce-practice-stephane-boghossian skill do?

AI co-counsel for divorce and family-law attorneys — a jurisdiction-portable scaffold spanning the full matter lifecycle. Eight operating modes mirror how a matter actually moves: intake and onboarding, financial disclosure, children and support, property division and QDRO, discovery and document review, drafting, negotiation and mediation prep, and court prep — plus post-judgment modification and enforcement. The methodology is jurisdiction-agnostic: it forces real, verifiable research for every local form, formula, or rule rather than inventing one, handling common-law, community-property, c

How do I install it?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill divorce-practice-stephane-boghossian --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.

Where does this skill come from?

From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.

Is a popular skill a good skill?

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