Divorce Practice (Attorney Co-Counsel)

What this skill does

AI co-counsel for divorce and family-law attorneys — a jurisdiction-portable scaffold across the full matter lifecycle, from client intake to final judgment and post-judgment work. Encodes the eight phases of a divorce matter (intake, financial disclosure, custody & support, property division/QDRO, discovery, drafting, negotiation/mediation prep, court prep) and forces verifiable legal research for every jurisdiction-specific rule rather than inventing one. Built around privilege protection in the wake of the 2026 U.S. Heppner ruling.

• Divorce
• Family Law
• Litigation
• Privilege

Where it runs, and how to install it

Agent Skills are a format, not a product feature: a folder with a SKILL.md and whatever files it needs. Nothing inside one is model-specific.

Claude

Drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or upload it in Settings → Capabilities. Claude loads it when the description matches what you asked for.

Claude Code

Same folder, per-project instead: .claude/skills/ inside the repository, so the skill travels with the work rather than with the machine.

Any agent that reads SKILL.md

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md and whatever files it needs. Nothing in the format is model-specific, so a runtime that reads the file reads the skill.

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