Virginia family law, native on Mac. And every Apple device you practice from.
Every calculator, deadline, motion, hearsay exception, worksheet, and PDF a Virginia divorce or custody case asks for — built natively for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. By a practicing Virginia family law attorney, for the colleagues who practice beside her.
I built this for my own practice first.
For years, my practice ran on a disjointed patchwork of tools. I bounced between clunky spreadsheets for guideline support, overpriced and inconvenient cloud subscriptions, and endless Word templates for every stipulation agreement, pleading, and order. I relied on scattered folders for cover letters and local rules, a bookmark bar cluttered with Title 20 Va. Code sections, and a trial notebook I painstakingly repurposed for every single client matter and trial.
Sure, it got the job done. But it devoured unbillable hours, and the constant friction meant critical, case-winning details were always at risk of slipping through the cracks.
I believe Virginia's family law attorneys deserve better. So, I built a tool I actually wanted to use: a truly Virginia-first family law application.
Designed natively for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, this isn't generic practice management software. It is a purpose-built application that focuses on what Virginia family law attorneys need.
Key features designed for the Virginia family law practitioner:
- Frictionless, secure client intake. Stop chasing down PDFs and deciphering handwriting. Send customized, encrypted intake forms to your clients and import their responses directly into your active case file — intake is now seamless and instantly actionable.
- Draft legal documents in seconds. Reclaim your unbillable hours. With a single click, merge client intake data directly into your firm's most-used pleadings, agreements, and orders. Build templates from your existing Word documents — no coding or expensive add-ons required.
- Automated guideline support. Ditch the clunky, outdated spreadsheets. Instantly generate accurate, court-ready child support worksheets and run complex spousal support scenarios with zero guesswork, right from your device.
- Equitable distribution mastery. Stop wrestling with Excel formulas. Use built-in Brandenburg calculators for seamless tracing and bulletproof hybrid property analysis. Walk into mediation knowing exactly where the numbers land.
- Military divorce proficiency. Handle cases in Hampton Roads, NOVA, or anywhere in the Commonwealth with confidence. Use specialized tools to accurately navigate the minefield of military pay, pensions, and retirement — an absolute must-have for a Virginia practice.
- Intelligent local rule tracking. Don't get blindsided by a circuit court quirk again. Court-specific pretrial and scheduling order workflows automatically track your deadlines, manage your tasks, and populate your calendar entries.
- Pretrial Motions library with Rule 4:12 fee motion builder.54 Virginia family-law motions with court venue, Va. Code and Rule authority, timing, and the J& DR / Circuit discovery asymmetry baked in. Generate a complete Rule 4:12 fee motion packet — motion, affidavit, and proposed order — in one merged PDF.
- Rule 1:18B compliance. Protect your case and your peace of mind. Rely on automated deadline tracking for exhibit exchanges and tiered expert designations so you never blow a critical trial deadline.
- Income imputation done right. Confidently tackle voluntary underemployment. Calculate earning capacity and imputed income correctly the first time, with Virginia's 2025–2028 minimum-wage schedule automated and four analysis methods built in.
- Hearing-type-first hearsay engine. 22 Virginia hearsay exceptions organized by the 8 family-law hearing types they actually arise in — with foundation scripts, voir dire, objections and responses, judge questions, and 39 pre-rendered courtroom audio scenarios for hands-free prep.
- Stay sharp with Trial Drills. Keep your courtroom reflexes lightning-fast. Practice objections and witness examinations using 178 real-world Virginia family law scenarios across 70 packs, with instant feedback on evidentiary grounds and rationale.
- A law library in your pocket. Stop searching for statutes in the hallway outside the courtroom. Access 246+Virginia-specific attorney resources, checklists, and quick-reference guides instantly, right at your fingertips.
It's time to abandon the patchwork. Streamline your practice with an application built by a Virginia family lawyer, for Virginia family attorneys.
One app. Every tool your Virginia family law practice actually uses.
Guideline calculations that match the Code — not a spreadsheet.
Eight support calculators built to Va. Code § 20-108.1 and § 20-107.1, with the edge cases that matter in real Virginia cases.
- Sole, shared, split, and hybrid custody — including § 20-108.2(G).5 and G.6 combined methodologies
- Scan a military LES or ELS with your camera; the app parses entitlements, TRICARE, and TSP into guideline-ready income
- Full 2026 DFAS RMC tables — BP, BAH, BAS with DoD differential-tax methodology, with- and without-dependents BAH
- Retroactive support with daily compounding at Virginia's 6% statutory rate and a full payment-history ledger
- Income imputation with Virginia minimum-wage schedule (2025–2028 automated) and four analysis methods
- Side-by-side spousal support scenario comparison (need vs. ability)
54 Virginia family-law motions, with the J& DR / Circuit asymmetry baked in.
A first-in-class motion library organized around Virginia family-law practice — not a generic civil-procedure dump. Every motion carries the venue, authority, timing, and discovery posture you need to file it today.
- Every motion tagged with court venue — J& DR District, Circuit, or both — so you always know where a motion is viable
- Rule 8:15 (J& DR, leave required, good cause) vs. Rules 4:1–4:12 (Circuit, default availability, Rule 1:18 scheduling) discovery asymmetry encoded as a first-class field
- Primary-authority citations with tappable links to law.lis.virginia.gov and courts.state.va.us, opened in the in-app browser
- Typical timing — intake, pendente lite, discovery, pretrial, post-interlocutory — right on the card
- Pin any motion to a matter for one-tap retrieval during trial prep
- Rule 4:12 fee motion builder that generates motion+affidavit of counsel+proposed order as a single merged PDF packet — with your firm's signature block, CoS, and caption auto-populated from the active matter
Every deadline, calculated backward — from the right trial date.
Fifteen court-specific templates covering most of the circuits you actually appear in, plus a custom builder for the rest. Virginia court holidays and weekend adjustments handled automatically.
- Virginia-holiday-aware math with previous-business-day default (conservative Rule 1:7 reading), forward- or no-adjust per item
- Conference-date and trial-date inputs where the court requires them
- One-tap export to Apple Calendar with reminder configuration, plus a universal .ics file
- Pin your home courts, override built-in templates, save per-matter
Structure your ED case the way Virginia courts expect.
Brandenburg 11-factor analysis, full asset classification, and proposed-award allocation — not just a list.
- Classify marital, separate, and hybrid property with hybrid-marital percentage tracking
- Debt schedule with responsibility assignments and monthly payment tracking
- Retirement Plan Schedule with military QDRO, SBP/DIC offset guidance, DFAS direct-pay notes, and gray-area pointers in-line
- Proposed-award allocation that flows through to settlement proposals and decree language
The only hearsay library organized by hearing type.
22 Virginia hearsay exceptions (Va. R. Evid. 2:803 / 2:804 plus Title 20, 32.1, 58.1, 63.2, and 8.01 statutes) organized around the 8 family-law hearing types they actually arise in. Walk into any hearing knowing which exception fits, how to lay it, and how to defend against it.
- 22-section exception detail — bench card, foundation, voir dire, objections and responses, judge questions, cross targets, proponent and opponent checklists, official sources
- 39 pre-rendered courtroom-narrative audio scenarios for hands-free hearing prep
- Hearing-type-first dashboard — Temporary Relief, Custody, Support, Protective Order, Contempt, Contested Divorce, J& DR Review, Ore Tenus
- Filter chips for bucket, risk, privilege review, and pretrial notice requirements
- Save any exception to a matter for quick retrieval during trial prep
Sharpen your objection instinctsbetween hearings.
178 Virginia family-law scenarios across 70 packs. Multi-beat transcripts, one objection point, four options — with tailored feedback and a linked resource card for every answer. No other practice-suite app ships this.
- 26 objection types — hearsay, relevance, leading, foundation, speculation, improper impeachment, beyond-scope, and every other ground you actually hear
- Deterministic Leitner review intervals (1/3/7/14/30/60/90 days) — spaced repetition that builds reliable recall
- Quick Drill, Review Queue, Category Practice, and Progress Dashboard
- Hearing Prep grid of the 8 Virginia family-law hearing types — jump straight from a drill into hearing-type-aware prep
- iOS Home Screen widget with streak, due-today, and perfect-session counts
A. She said —
One matter profile. Every documentmerges from it.
A single source of truth for every party, child, asset, debt, retirement account, and court detail — then everything else pulls from it.
- 21-section client intake with conditional branches for minor children, GAL, adoption, and donor profiles
- Encrypted hosted intake — the client fills out a secure .vflintake form; you decrypt it locally with no third-party server holding the plaintext (AES-256-GCM or ECIES)
- 19 base document templates — complaints, final decrees, SCRA waivers, adoption orders, cover letters — with Virginia signature blocks, Certificate of Service handling, and custom merge fields
- Trial References section per matter — pin motions, attorney resources, and hearsay exceptions directly to the matter for one-tap retrieval during trial prep
- Matter-specific trial exhibit lists, witness designations, and combined exhibit PDFs merged via PDFKit
Matter data stays on your device by default.
Every matter, calculation, and document is designed to stay on your device. Cross-device sync is opt-in and runs through your own iCloud account — not through a server we operate.
On-device storage with SwiftData
Clients, matters, calculations, saved worksheets, exhibit lists — all stored locally. No cloud account required. No telemetry on your case data.
iCloud sync is opt-in, off by default
Turn on "Sync across my Apple devices" in Settings and your data syncs through your private CloudKit database to every device signed into your Apple ID.
Face ID, Touch ID, Optic ID
Optional biometric lock with device-passcode fallback. Re-locks when the app goes to background. Keychain holds every OAuth credential.
Attorney-controlled last‑4 redaction
Before any document leaves the device, a Redact sheet lets the attorney mask SSN, driver's license, and financial account numbers (or accept the per-document defaults). The full value stays local.
Encrypted client intake
Shareable client intake forms use AES-256-GCM or ECIES. The client fills, encrypts, and returns the form — you decrypt it locally under your attorney key.
Full data-wipe pathway
One tap disconnects integrations, deletes every matter, clears calculator state, flushes Keychain tokens, and resets the app. Own your departure.
Built to live alongside the tools your firm already uses.
VFL Toolkit isn't a replacement for your practice management software — it' s the Virginia-specific companion that handles the work those platforms don't. Integrations are optional, authenticated, and respect your existing workflows.
By design, VFL Toolkit only integrates with Apple's secure ecosystem and ShareFile. No Google, Dropbox, Outlook, or third-party clouds touch your matter data.
Native on every Apple device you practice from.
Practicing Virginia family law exclusively since 2006.
Lawren Burroughs is the founding attorney of Burroughs Law Office, P.C., in Virginia Beach. With over twenty years of practical experience and nearly two decades focused exclusively on Virginia family law, she built VFL Toolkit for her own daily practice — and spent years refining it against the cases that actually come through the door.
Every calculator, every pretrial template, every signature block, every redaction rule reflects a choice made because she needed it to work a specific way in a real Virginia courtroom.
One price. The whole toolkit.
Seven-day free trial. Cancel anytime from Settings in the App Store. Every calculator, template, motion, document, and future update included.
One subscription. Every Apple device you already own. Less than a single expert-witness hour per month.No per-matter fees. No add-on modules. No team seats. No surprise upsells. Every calculator, every pretrial template, every motion, every hearsay exception, every trial drill, and every document template — included. Mac app included at no extra cost.
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