The Family Finance Toolkit

Compatible with all Windows-based PCs (Windows 3.1 and above), this software is an aid to ancillary relief case work.

It enables the user to: draft matrimonial orders; carry out financial calculations; and maintain an electronic address book of key contacts and clients.

The toolkit library contains 80 standard clauses, forms and precedents, all of which can be edited or added to, to suit an individual practice's requirements.

These include: agreements; Anton Piller order; Child Support Act clauses; cohabitees property dispute; contents; deferred charges; directions; dismissals; Form E; index-linked maintenance; Legal Aid provisions; lump sum; maintenance; Mareva injunctions; Mesher orders; notice of appeal; notice of application; pensions; policies; production appointment; questionnaire; recital; sale; school fees; subpoena dures tecum; top and tail clauses; transfer of property; and undertakings. There is also a powerful set of calculators designed to perform the calculations involved in family finance work.

They come with print-out text and cover the following areas: simple and compound interest; mortgage payments; income tax schedule D; income tax schedule E; maintenance; foreign exchange; child support; Duxbury; retail price index; present value of insurance policy; future value of insurance policy; current DSS benefits; house price index; capital gains tax indexation.