Forensic financial analysis for family law

See the whole financial picture before you settle

Upload the bank, credit-card, brokerage, and tax records. ForensicTrail reads every transaction, surfaces the forensic risks, and builds court-ready reports — intelligent automation for the heavy lifting, expert review where it counts.

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Marlowe v. Marlowe
Analysis period: Jan 2023 – Dec 2024 · 12 accounts · 4,180 transactions
DMDaniel Marlowe EMErin Marlowe
Total inflow
$612,400
Total outflow
$689,250
Net cash flow
–$76,850
Transactions
4,180
Monthly cash flow
InflowOutflow
Action items
86 transactions need review
Low-confidence classifications
4 files failed reconciliation
Balances don't add up
18 unmatched transfers
Money out with no matching deposit
Built for the evidentiary standard Chain of custody · Bates numbering · Decision audit trail · Automated reconciliation · Human review before conclusions
The problem

The money story is buried in a box of PDFs

On a contested matter, experts burn most of the engagement on data plumbing — the low-value work that also creates the errors opposing counsel probes on the stand.

📄

Manual extraction is slow and fragile

Hundreds of pages of statements, retyped into spreadsheets one row at a time — the exact process that breeds transcription errors under cross-examination.

🧩

Categorization drifts case to case

Two analysts label the same transaction two ways. Inconsistency is a cross-examination target — and the work rarely carries forward to the next matter.

⚖️

Admissibility is a standing risk

Testimony must rest on a documented methodology. Without an audit trail and chain of custody, hard-won findings are vulnerable to challenge.

How it works

From a box of statements to a defensible case

One auditable workflow, from the first upload to the expert report. Every step is logged to the chain of custody and the decision audit trail.

Open the matter

Create the case, set the marital or analysis period, and name both parties. Every account, transaction, and finding downstream is scoped to them.

Upload the records

Drag in statements, returns, and spreadsheets of every kind. Everything lands in secure, encrypted storage the moment it's uploaded.

Extract & classify

Smart extraction reads every transaction, separates combined statements, and checks the balances. Each line is then classified automatically and screened for forensic risks.

Review & report

Clear one case-wide queue of low-confidence items, then generate lifestyle analysis, income reconstruction, source-and-use schedules, and Bates-numbered expert reports.

Upload
PDFs to secure storage
Extract
Reads pages, separates accounts, checks balances
Classify
Automatic categorization with risk flags
Review
Expert approves, corrects, and refines
Report
Immutable PDF + Bates + audit trail
Every step logged — chain of custody + decision audit trail.
Intelligent by design

AI where it helps. Guardrails where it counts.

State-of-the-art AI handles the heavy analysis — always behind auditable guardrails a court can follow.

Where AI earns its place
  • Reading messy statements into clean transactions
  • Making sense of the ambiguous transactions humans would labor over
  • Narrative findings and a plain-English case assistant
  • An independent second opinion on high-value transactions
What keeps it defensible
  • Proven, repeatable logic resolves most transactions first — AI is only the fallback
  • Every transaction shows exactly how it was classified
  • Low-confidence items are held for mandatory human review
  • The assistant answers from your real case data, with citations
Features

Everything a financial investigation needs

Purpose-built for the disputes that come up in divorce, custody, and asset tracing — not repurposed bookkeeping software.

Automated extraction

Smart extraction reads every transaction from PDFs, statements, and spreadsheets, splitting combined statements into separate accounts.

Forensic classification

Every line is sorted into affidavit-aligned categories automatically, with a confidence score and a clear record of how it was classified.

Forensic flags

Automatically surface structuring, suspicious round-number transfers, related-party payments, and personal-expense indicators.

Hidden income

Classify deposits into income-source buckets and surface the gap between deposits and reported income.

Transfer analysis

Detect paired, unmatched, structured, and circular transfers, and keep them out of spending totals to prevent double-counting.

AI case assistant

Ask plain-English questions about your case and get instant answers with citations, inline charts, and tables.

Inside the workspace

Every figure traces back to a source page

Accounts, transactions, transfers, and findings — one connected case file where nothing is orphaned from its evidence.

A single review queue

Low-confidence transactions collect in one case-wide queue. Approve, correct the category, or exclude with a reason — and teach the system so identical items classify themselves next time. Group similar transactions to clear dozens at once.

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Transaction Review
Needs Review 86 Refunds to Verify 31 Approved 3,940
DateMerchantAmountCategoryConf.Status
Feb 12, 2024ZELLE TO R. CALDWELL–$3,200.00Transfers & CashLowPENDING
Mar 03, 2024HARBORVIEW MARINA LLC–$5,900.00Unclassified / OtherLowPENDING
Apr 19, 2024VENMO CASHOUT+$2,150.00IncomeMedPENDING
Jun 21, 2024DELTA AIR 0069921–$1,284.40TravelMedPENDING
Aug 02, 2024CASH APP *MARLOWE–$900.00Transfers & CashLowPENDING
Sep 15, 2024THE POLO BAR NYC–$642.18Food & DiningMedPENDING
app.forensictrail.com/cases/marlowe/accounts
Accounts 12
All types 12Checking 3Credit Card 7
Chase Total Checking 4021
CHECKINGFROM STATEMENT
In $58,200Out $61,400Net –$3,200
PARTIES
Daniel MarloweErin Marlowe
Amex Platinum 1007
CREDIT CARDFROM STATEMENT
Charges $92,140Payments $90,300owed +$1,840
PARTIES
Daniel Marlowe
Fidelity Brokerage 8890
BROKERAGEFROM STATEMENT
In $120,000Out $44,500Net +$75,500
PARTIES
Erin Marlowe
Capital One Venture 6612
CREDIT CARDFROM STATEMENT
Charges $31,880Payments $33,400paid $1,520
PARTIES
Erin Marlowe

Accounts, attributed to parties

Combined statements split into distinct accounts automatically, each with money-flow totals, file counts, and the parties it belongs to — so the picture stays scoped to the two people the case is about.

Who it's for

Built for the two sides of the engagement

Forensic accountants

Get through the statements, keep it defensible

Clear the data plumbing fast, classify consistently across cases, and produce analysis you can defend in a deposition — with the methodology documented for you.

More hours on the investigation. Less methodology risk.

Family-law attorneys

A report on time, and a money story you can tell

Faster turnaround on expert output, affidavit-aligned analysis, and findings tied to source pages — so you can explain the numbers to a judge without hedging.

Defensible discovery, on the schedule the matter needs.

Court-ready by design

Every number can be traced. Every decision can be explained.

Chain of custody, Bates numbering, reconciliation gates, human review, and a full decision audit trail — engineered to survive cross-examination.

Chain of custody

Append-only, timestamped log from upload and SHA-256 hash through extraction.

Bates numbering

Sequential, court-standard page labels tie every exhibit to discovery.

Decision audit trail

Before/after record of every review, rule, and exclusion.

Reconciliation gates

Balance and sign-convention checks park suspect files for review.

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Pricing

Priced to the engagement

Every matter carries a different volume of records and analysis. Tell us about your caseload and we'll put together a plan that fits.

Let's talk

Solo practice or a firm running many matters at once — pricing scales with your caseload, with per-matter data isolation on every plan.

Contact us for pricing

Spend your hours on the investigation, not the data entry

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