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Free tools for a financial remedy case

Six small tools that answer the questions people ask most, free and without signing up. Everything runs in your browser: no date, figure or file you enter leaves your device.

Try the working demo

Every RemedyReady document is built from one case file that you fill in once. To see how it works before you buy anything, open the builder with the invented example case, Collins v Collins, already loaded: change any figure and watch the ES2, the net effects schedule and the offer letter update. Nothing you type leaves your device and you can delete the example and start your own case whenever you like.

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Court deadline calculator

Enter the hearing and its date and the calculator lists what must be filed and served before it, counting back under the Family Procedure Rules and the Financial Remedies Guide 2026. Your own directions order takes priority over any of these dates.

The day you file and the day of the hearing do not count (rule 2.9(3)), so each date shown is the last day on which the document is in time. Periods of seven days or less exclude weekends and bank holidays (rule 2.9(4)); longer periods are calendar days. Where a date falls on a weekend or a bank holiday in England and Wales the calculator moves it to the previous working day. Bank holidays are built in to the end of 2028.

Court fee calculator

Family Court fees from form EX50 as updated on 26 October 2026. Fees change: check EX50 before you pay.

Document checklist by hearing

Tick what you have. The list is built from rules 9.14 to 9.28 of the Family Procedure Rules and the Financial Remedies Guide 2026 and links to the RemedyReady builder for each document.

Bundle page counter

Choose the PDFs you plan to put in a bundle. The tool counts their pages and adds up their size, against the 350-page limit in the Financial Remedies Guide and the court's usual file-size limits. Files are read on your device and not uploaded.

A4 page fixer

Scanned or American-letter pages make a bundle untidy and can be rejected. This resizes every page of a PDF to A4 portrait (landscape pages stay landscape), keeping the content centred and gives you the new file. Done on your device; nothing is uploaded.

Child maintenance calculator

The figure the Child Maintenance Service would calculate under the 2012 scheme, from the paying parent's gross income. Use it to check a CMS calculation, to put a figure in a position statement or an agreement and to see whether the paying parent's income is above the £156,000 a year ceiling, beyond which only the court can order more (a "top-up").

Rates and bands from the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012: nil rate below £7 a week; flat rate £7 to £100 a week or on benefits; reduced rate £100.01 to £199.99; basic rate £200 to £800; basic plus rate on income from £800.01 to £3,000 a week; income above £3,000 a week (£156,000 a year) is ignored. The CMS uses HMRC's figure for the last complete tax year and may vary it if current income differs by 25% or more. This is a guide: the official calculator on GOV.UK and the CMS's own calculation take priority.

These tools are general aids, not legal advice. The dates and documents your own court has ordered take priority. For the documents themselves, see Hearings & documents.
Not legal advice. RemedyReady is a document-preparation tool and information service run by Split Right Ltd. We are not a law firm, we are not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or the Bar Standards Board and we do not give legal advice or act for you. Every case is different and our guidance describes the law in general terms and may contain errors or become out of date: check important points against the official source, follow the court's directions in your case and take advice on your own situation from a solicitor, a barrister instructed directly, or a free service such as Advocate, Citizens Advice or a Law Centre. Read our legal disclaimer