Get your case out of your head and into a system.
Choose a working spreadsheet with built-in checks, or a fillable Print Edition designed for a court binder. Either way, Steadycase gives your facts, evidence, witnesses, deadlines, and requested relief a place to go.
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I'm David Martino. I'm a licensed family-law attorney, and I founded Steadycase.
Steadycase makes tools mainly for people handling their own family law case, or with limited resources to hire a lawyer.
Many family-court tools charge by the month. Not Steadycase. You pay once.
The Custody Trial Notebook is sixty-nine dollars. The Divorce Trial Notebook is ninety-nine. For a divorce without minor children, the Financial Divorce Trial Notebook is sixty-nine. Each one arrives as an instant download, and it stays yours. The fillable Print Editions start at forty-nine dollars. Compass, our state research companion, is twenty-nine.
If you want a place to start, the Quick Guides are nine dollars each. What the Court Looks At in a Custody Case explains the best-interest standard, the one question custody courts answer in every state. Your Custody Hearing starts with the notice and explains the room, the people, and what may happen next.
Courtroom Practice is our objections game. Fictional testimony arrives one line at a time, and the call is yours: object, pick the ground, or stay quiet. It's free to play, with packs from seven dollars.
No subscription. No monthly fee. One price, paid once.
Legal information and self-help tools, not legal advice.
See the notebook before you buy it.
Short videos walk through each Trial Notebook a section at a time — the actual pages on screen, with captions and transcripts.
Choose a notebook
Built for the part of family court that overwhelms people first: organization.
You still make your own decisions, verify your own rules, and seek legal advice when you need it. Steadycase gives you the structure to stop losing the thread.
Attorney-created, but not attorney representation.
Steadycase was created by David Martino, a Maryland family-law attorney licensed since 1995, and is owned and sold by AlbusWorks LLC.
The point is practical organization, not case-specific legal advice. AlbusWorks LLC is not a law firm, and buying or using Steadycase does not create an attorney-client relationship or include legal review, consultation, representation, or access to David.
About SteadycaseChoose how you want to work.
Start with the format you will actually use. Both versions organize the same core trial-preparation work, but the tools around that work are different.
Choose Excel or Google Sheets when you want dropdowns, formulas, deadline calculations, conditional formatting, and a final Checks dashboard.
Choose the fillable PDF when you want a clean binder you can complete on screen or by hand, then print all at once or one section at a time.
Then choose your format.
The notebooks are matched to the legal problems they organize. The format choice changes how you work, not which case type fits.
Start with what the court looks at.
What the Court Looks At in a Custody Case is a 20-page print-at-home guide to the best-interest standard and the themes that come up in state after state, with a worksheet for what you already have. Read it before you choose a notebook, or on its own.
Add your state's Compass after checkout.
The notebook organizes your case. Steadycase Compass helps you locate official state sources for rules, forms, fees, calculators, and self-help materials. It is $29 on its own. Buy it together with any notebook in one checkout for $20 more (one payment, one download page), or add it right after a notebook checkout.
Compass is a separate state-specific PDF and does not supply answers for your facts.
See Steadycase CompassEvery tab has a job.
The workbook is designed to move from first triage to trial prep. You do not have to fill it in perfectly on day one. You build it as your case develops.
Core notebook files, plus Compass only if you add it.
Each notebook is delivered as a working case file, not a static packet. You can continue adding facts, documents, witnesses, sources, deadlines, and court-prep notes as new issues appear.
Family Court Prep Field Guide
A practical starter guide for collecting the documents, dates, and organizational tasks that tend to scatter when a case starts moving quickly.
Enter a real email address. The Field Guide arrives by email, usually within a minute. The guide is general legal information, not legal advice, and is current as of its publication date. Always verify requirements with your court's official sources. Do not send case facts or documents. Prefer a full page? See what is inside the Family Court Prep Field Guide.
Document Everything Method
The five-field log, screenshot-to-full-thread rule, and two-pile sort — a starter habit for keeping every file findable.
Enter a real email address. We email you the download link right away. The guide is general legal information, not legal advice, and is current as of its publication date. Always verify requirements with your court's official sources. Do not send case facts or documents. Prefer a full page? See what is inside the Document Everything Method.
Keep the Whole Thread
Getting a text conversation off your phone and into one dated file, with the free routes first.