Frequently Asked Questions

Divorce Tutor is an education and document preparation platform built specifically for New Hampshire family court. We guide you through plain-language questions — with tips, hints, and video lessons built into the workflow — and generate court-ready documents for divorce, parenting, and family court matters. Everything was authored by a NH family law attorney with 25+ years of experience, so each form you fill out has built-in guidance from start to finish.

No. Divorce Tutor is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Divorce Tutor was built by a NH family law attorney with 25+ years of experience, and her knowledge is built into each form. We provide legal information, education, and document preparation tools for uncontested and contested divorces, parenting cases, modification and contempt cases, and domestic violence.

Anyone involved in a New Hampshire divorce, parenting, or family court matter on their own. That includes uncontested cases where you both agree — and contested ones where you don't. Filing or responding, starting fresh or modifying an old order, we cover the documents and teach you the process either way.

Currently, Divorce Tutor does not offer forms or education on: adoption, guardianship, juvenile delinquency, juvenile abuse & neglect, juvenile emancipation, and termination of parental rights.

Take the free quiz to see which forms we recommend for your situation, or browse all forms directly. Before purchase, you’ll create your account to start your membership, watch a short welcome video, and complete your profile — which auto-fills your information into every form so you never re-type the same information twice.

More than 60 New Hampshire court forms covering divorce, parenting & support, alimony, motions & objections, discovery, hearing preparation, and other common filings — with new forms added as they become available. Each form walks you through plain-language questions with built-in education.

Yes. Beyond petitions and decrees, Divorce Tutor includes motions, objections, contempt filings, discovery tools like requests for production of documents, and hearing prep documents like witness lists, exhibit lists, and pretrial statements — the parts of a real case that go far beyond basic paperwork.

Many are. But we have taken the court website forms, created others exclusive to Divorce Tutor, and transformed them into a step-by-step guided question format. The court forms are blank PDFs with little or no instruction, and even the court clerk cannot assist you. See for yourself.

Divorce Tutor turns the forms you need into plain-language questions, explains them, provides examples, and uses your answers to complete your court-ready form.

Yes! Your progress saves automatically as you work through each form. Close your browser, take a week off, come back anytime — you pick up exactly where you left off.

Short, plain-language videos — scripted from 25+ years of NH family law practice — that explain what each form is, why the court requires it, and what to think about as you answer. They appear right where you need them inside each workflow. The full searchable library lives in the Knowledge Hub, which opens with a membership.

When you finish answering all the questions, the system generates your court-ready documents as PDFs. You can download them directly from within the form interface.

Yes. Each form has a "Reset Form" option. This will archive your previous responses and start a fresh session. Your old data is kept for your records but won't affect the new form.

Yes. The profile information you provide (name, address, case details, spouse info, etc.) is automatically filled into each new form you start, so you don't have to re-enter the same information.

Divorce Tutor is membership-based: $29/month to join, cancel anytime. Membership opens the Divorce Tutor Knowledge Hub: video lessons, guides and checklists so you feel prepared along the way, plus help with your account, workflows and tech support through a Support Ticket (no legal advice). Everyone pays the same and gets the same knowledge and the same process support. Each form is a one-time price on top of membership, and discounts are available for packages.

A retainer is an up-front deposit you give a lawyer before they start — often several thousand dollars. They bill against it by the hour as your case moves, and when it runs low you top it up, so the total cost is hard to know in advance. Divorce Tutor doesn’t work that way. There’s no retainer and no hourly billing. Membership is $29/month and you can cancel anytime, and each court form is a separate one-time price you see before you pay. You always know what you’re paying.

Membership is how you join Divorce Tutor. It unlocks the Knowledge Hub — a searchable library of plain-language answers about the New Hampshire family court process, with video lessons and process guides (like the Court Road Map and hearing-prep guide) — plus support with using the platform and your account (not legal advice), and the ability to buy the forms your case needs. Every member gets the same knowledge and the same process support, no matter how many forms they buy. $29/month, cancel anytime.

Yes. The $29/month membership is how you join the platform — it’s required to buy or work on forms, use the Knowledge Hub, and reach support. Once you’re a member you only add the forms your case needs, with additional savings when you purchase additional forms.

That’s completely fine, and common. Your $29/month membership opens the whole Knowledge Hub on its own — the searchable answers, video lessons, and process guides — plus support, whether or not you ever buy a form. Explore for as long as you’re a member, and add forms only if and when your case needs them. You can also preview the Knowledge Hub questions for free before you join.

Cancelling never cuts your paid time short: you keep the Knowledge Hub through the end of the period you’ve already paid for. Once your membership actually ends, you then have 30 more days to finish and download any forms you already bought. For example, if you pay on July 1 and cancel on July 15, you’re still a member through July 31, and you can finish and download your forms until August 30. We don’t store your completed documents, so save them during that window.

You keep your membership through the end of the period you’ve already paid for, so there’s no mid-month cutoff. After it ends, the Knowledge Hub and support lock, and you have 30 days to finish and download any forms you already bought (we don’t store your completed documents, so save them during that window). You can rejoin anytime.

If a payment won’t successfully process, we try again and email you that your card information needs updating. You can open and complete the forms you’ve already paid for. The purchase of additional forms is paused, and access to support and the Knowledge Hub is temporarily suspended pending successful payment. Update your card anytime under your Account to reopen your access.

No. Membership opens the Knowledge Hub, support with using the platform, and the ability to buy the forms your case needs, but the court forms themselves are a separate one-time price. Members get additional discounts with form purchases.

Yes. Membership is $29/month, and each court form (or package of forms) is a separate one-time price in addition to your monthly membership. Buying more never changes your access or support.

As a member you get support through the platform — including the Knowledge Hub and support tickets through the “Request Support” button. We can help you with your account, understand and use the platform, and address technical issues. We are not a law firm and cannot provide case-specific legal advice.

Yes. There’s no contract. Cancel whenever you like and you keep your membership through the end of the period you’ve already paid for.

All sales are final because access begins immediately. If you're unsure what to buy, take the free quiz first so you only add the forms your case actually needs.

No — court fees are paid directly to the NH Circuit Court when you file. Under the fee schedule effective July 2025, filing for divorce costs $280 without minor children or $282 with minor children. If paying is a hardship, the court can reduce or waive fees — we have a form for requesting that, and the workflow explains how it works.

It varies by case. New Hampshire has no mandatory waiting period — uncontested divorces with complete, correct paperwork often finish in roughly 8–12 weeks, while contested cases typically take much longer. Getting your documents right the first time is one of the biggest factors you can control, and that is exactly what Divorce Tutor helps you do.

Yes. Divorce paperwork involves sensitive details, and we treat them that way: your information is protected with industry-standard encryption, kept behind your private account login, and never sold or shared for marketing. The information you enter is visible to you and to a small Divorce Tutor team, who can access it only when needed to operate the platform and support your account — for example, when you turn on sharing to get help with a form. It is never shared with any other user. Read our Privacy Policy.

Go to the Profile page from your dashboard or the navigation menu, where you can update your personal and case information anytime. Your changes are used to auto-fill future forms. Forms already started on the platform won't be affected.

Each form has a "Request Support" button so you can ask a question right where you’re working. Knowledge Hub members also get support through the platform for help with their account, the workflows, and technical issues; if you’re not a member, email us anytime at contact@divorcetutor.com. Either way, we can help with how the platform works — but we cannot give legal advice about your specific case.

Your account is completely separate from everyone else’s, including a spouse or opposing party. Your profile, your answers, and your forms live behind your own login, and the platform is built so that no other user can see, open, or search your information — that separation is enforced at the database level, not just by a setting. If both people in the same case use Divorce Tutor, neither account can reach the other’s data. Our support team can only open your form when you turn on sharing for a specific support request, and that access is limited, logged, and expires on its own. Divorce Tutor is a self-help tool you use yourself; we are not a law firm, we represent no one, and we don’t provide services that benefit one member over another.

The Divorce Tutor platform is built so the information you enter is for your forms only. There is no feature that pulls one member’s account information into another member’s forms. Information about the other side must be entered by the member into his/her own account for their specific forms. Divorce Tutor is not a law firm and does not represent individuals.

Click "Forgot Password" on the login page and enter your email. You'll receive a link to create a new password.

You can ask AI questions. You shouldn't rely on it for your filings. Public AI tools — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and the rest — were built to predict the next plausible word, not to know New Hampshire law. They confidently invent court cases, get filing deadlines wrong, and don't know that your local family division circuit court has its own rules. Researchers have logged more than 1,200 fake legal citations that AI tools have invented and that people then filed in court — and about 59% of those came from self-represented filers, not lawyers.

The pattern is consistent: AI gives a confident-sounding answer, the reader trusts it, the court catches the made-up case, and the filing gets dismissed or the filer gets sanctioned. We've seen a self-represented plaintiff hit with $2,632 in attorney's fees and a case dismissed with prejudice for two fabricated citations in a brief. We've seen lawyers fined $5,000 (Mata v. Avianca, Inc., S.D.N.Y. 2023), $10,000 (Mostafavi, California, 2025), and $110,000 (Oregon federal court, 2026 — the largest such penalty on record) for the same mistake.

Divorce Tutor was built by a NH family law attorney with 25+ years of practice. The questions, forms, and guidance are written by her — not generated by AI — and the documents you produce are court-ready New Hampshire forms. That's the difference.

No, they're not private. Public AI tools — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and the rest — are not your attorney and not your therapist. There's no attorney-client privilege, nothing protecting what you type into them. In 2026, a New York court formally confirmed that AI chat logs are discoverable — meaning the other side's lawyer can subpoena them and use them in your case.

That matters because of what people type. If you ask an AI something like "can my husband make a claim against my $500,000 inheritance from my mother?" — you've now created a written record disclosing the inheritance, the amount, and that you were trying to figure out whether to hide it. Opposing counsel would love to put that in front of a judge.

If you want to talk through your case, talk to a real attorney (covered by privilege) or use a platform like Divorce Tutor, where your answers stay in your private account instead of being fed into a public AI that learns from what you type.

No. Every form question, tip, video script, and explanation was written by Heather, the NH family law attorney who built the platform — drawing on 25+ years of practicing in New Hampshire family court. The forms are real NH court forms. The workflows reflect actual templates used in the same courts in which you will file. The guidance reflects what Heather would tell a client in her office.

We use software to deliver that content — that's how you can fill out a Petition for Divorce online instead of by hand — but the words are hers.

Three things:

1. The content was written by a NH family law attorney, tied to actual NH court forms, rules and NH law. A general AI doesn't know your local court's rules, won't catch that the filing fee changed in July 2025 or that the Parenting Plan changed in January 2025, and will confidently make up a deadline.
2. The form generated is a NH court-ready document. You answer plain-language questions; Divorce Tutor produces the actual form based on the NH Judicial Branch forms that the court accepts. An AI chatbot produces text that is not properly formatted for filing with the court.
3. Your information stays private. Your answers live in your account, behind your password. Unlike a public chatbot, they aren't fed into an AI that learns from them — and they aren't discoverable just because you typed them.

If you want to brainstorm or learn vocabulary, AI is fine for that. If you want to file something with a New Hampshire court, that's what Divorce Tutor is for.

These are real court rulings, not cautionary tales. In each one, someone trusted what an AI tool produced, filed it, and the court caught it:

1. New York (2026): A court sanctioned an attorney and a law firm for filing a brief — prepared with generative AI — that cited cases that don't exist and quoted fictitious "Court of Appeals" rulings that were flatly contrary to actual law. (Landberg v. City of New York, 2026 NY Slip Op 03935, Docket No. 2025-02380, June 23, 2026 — Justia U.S. Law)
2. New York federal court (2024): A judge refused to credit evidence a firm submitted using ChatGPT to show its billing rates were reasonable, because "ChatGPT has been shown to be an unreliable source." (Z.H. v. N.Y.C. Dep't of Educ., No. 23-cv-3081 (ER), 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 124478 (S.D.N.Y. July 12, 2024) — American Bar Association)
3. Federal appeals court (2024): The court referred an attorney to the Second Circuit's Grievance Panel for investigation after he filed a brief that relied on "non-existent" caselaw generated by ChatGPT. (Park v. Kim, 91 F.4th 610 (2d Cir. Jan. 30, 2024) — American Bar Association)
4. Wisconsin federal court (2024): The court found that a case cited in a reply brief appeared to be hallucinated by AI — it couldn't be found anywhere — and warned counsel they would be sanctioned for any future non-existent citations. (Plumbers v. Morris Plumbing, LLC, No. 23-CV-616-JPS-JPS, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70751 (E.D. Wis. Apr. 18, 2024) — American Bar Association)
5. Mississippi (2026): Lawyers used AI-generated material containing false information, leading a federal judge to impose sanctions and fines. ("Judge Boots Attorneys After Both Sides Submit AI-Hallucinated Citations," Forbes, June 12, 2026)
6. Wyoming (2026): A federal judge threatened to sanction two lawyers at Morgan & Morgan who included fictitious citations in a lawsuit against Walmart; one admitted he had used an AI program that "hallucinated" the cases and apologized for the mistake. (Law.com, May 27, 2026; see also Reuters, May 29, 2026)
7. Federal appeals court (2026): The Seventh Circuit imposed a $5,000 sanction on a litigant's counsel for briefs containing numerous fabricated citations and factual misrepresentations produced by AI tools, and referred a second attorney to the Illinois disciplinary authorities. (Perez-Castillo v. Blanche, No. 25-1988 (7th Cir. 2026) — Justia U.S. Law)

The pattern never changes: the AI sounds confident, invents a case or a quote, and the court catches it. And it falls hardest on people without a lawyer — researchers have documented more than 1,200 fabricated AI citations filed in court, and most came from self-represented filers. As of 2026, hundreds of federal judges have standing orders requiring filers to disclose AI use, and family courts are catching up fast.