Financial discovery review for Florida family-law attorneys

The problem it is built for

In a contested dissolution, the financial production often decides the financial issues, and it rarely arrives in order. Bank statements come in with months missing. A brokerage account shows up in a transfer memo but never as a statement. A production says "see attached" for a request the attachments do not answer. Someone has to read every page against every numbered request, keep track of which accounts exist, and turn the gaps into a deficiency letter the other side cannot wave off.

Florida adds structure to that work. Florida family-law practice runs on mandatory disclosure under Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.285, which requires the parties to exchange a financial affidavit and specified financial documents and to certify compliance (Florida Courts publishes the certificate as Form 12.932). Formal requests for production and interrogatories then fill the gaps. Discovery Review is designed for the review step that follows: checking what came in against what was requested.

How a review works

1. Add the request

Upload your request for production or interrogatories as a PDF or Word file, or paste the text. Draftiro parses it into a numbered list that keeps your original numbering and wording. Parsing is not perfect, so every item is editable: fix a split request, merge two that belong together, or add one by hand. Your edits are saved with the review.

2. Add the production

Upload what the other side produced: PDFs, Word files and images. Each document shows its own status while it is processed, so you can see what has been read and what failed. Draftiro works from the text it can read on each page. A page or file it cannot read is reported as failed with a reason; it is not guessed at or summarized.

3. Read the ledger

For each request item, the ledger shows one of four statuses: Produced, Partially produced, Missing, or Objected/Withheld. Each call comes with the documents and pages it relied on, a one-line rationale (for example, statements for one account cover January through September when the request covers the full year), and a confidence indicator so you know where to look first. The ledger is a starting point for your review, not a finding. You can open the referenced pages and decide for yourself.

4. Review the flags

When the production includes financial records, Draftiro runs a set of plain rules and lists what they catch as leads, never accusations:

• a transfer to an account that appears nowhere else in the production;
• an account that is referenced but has no statement produced;
• a transfer far larger than that account's usual pattern;
• round-number transfers above a floor you set;
• clusters of transactions near key dates you add, such as the separation or filing date;
• repeated withdrawals just under a reporting threshold;
• a new payee that first appears after a key date you set.

Every flag names the rule that fired and cites the document and page. Thresholds are adjustable per review, because what is unusual in one household's finances is routine in another's. The account inventory lists every account number found across the production, by last four digits only, with where it appeared and whether statements were produced for it.

5. Summarize, export and follow up

Draftiro writes a narrative summary of what was requested, what arrived, what is missing or partial, and which flags deserve attention. You can export the summary, ledger, flags and account inventory as PDF or Word. From the same screen you can draft a follow-up: a deficiency or meet-and-confer letter that cites the outstanding request numbers, a second request for production narrowed to what was not produced, or another document you describe. The draft opens in the Draftiro editor as a matter document you edit like any other. If the gaps remain after conferral, the record you built supports the next step, such as a motion to compel, which you draft and decide on yourself.

What stays with the attorney

Discovery Review organizes the record so you can inspect it faster. It does not decide whether a disclosure is complete or legally sufficient, whether a transaction is dissipation or fraud, or whether anyone complied with Rule 12.285 or a court order. A "Missing" status means Draftiro did not find responsive material in what it could read; it may be in a file that failed to process, labeled in a way the parser did not connect, or produced somewhere else. Treat every status and flag as a pointer to the pages you need to read.

The same applies to the drafts. A deficiency letter is only as good as the request it relies on, and you decide what to demand, what to concede and what to tell the court. The Florida Bar's Ethics Opinion 24-1 on generative AI is advisory; it reminds lawyers that confidentiality, competence, supervision and fee obligations stay with the lawyer. Draftiro does not make anyone's use of AI compliant.

Confidentiality and access

Discovery Review runs inside your firm's Draftiro workspace, on the matter the production belongs to. Draftiro does not use your matter content to train AI models. Account numbers are shown by last four digits in the inventory and exports. See security and data handling for encryption, firm isolation and the providers involved.

Discovery Review is enabled per firm in limited release and is not part of any self-serve plan. If you handle Florida family-law financial discovery and want to try it on a real production, email us and tell us roughly how large a typical production is. For everyday drafting, document questions and the Word add-in, the self-serve plans on the pricing page apply.