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📥 Checklists, worksheets & calendars
The calculators on this site handle the arithmetic. These documents handle the part that comes before it — the records, the figures, and the dates you need in front of you. Each one is built from published agency sources, dated, and re-issued when the underlying tables change.
Every resource page below sets out the full contents in the open, before any email request: what is in the document, who it is for, and which official sources it draws on. If the page answers your question without you sending an email, that is a fine outcome.
Settlement documentation checklist
A two-page printable listing the records every published valuation method is computed from: the incident report, complete medical records, itemised bills rather than balances, written proof of wage loss, correspondence, and a dated timeline. Plus fourteen per-diem log rows. It measures what is in your folder, never what a claim is worth.
PDF checklist2 pagesUpdated 2026-08-02
Child support worksheet
A two-page worksheet listing every figure your state's guideline formula asks for, in the order it asks, grouped by which of the four guideline models your state uses. The second page links each verified state's own official calculator, because that is the figure of record and this sheet only gets you there prepared.
PDF worksheet2 pagesUpdated 2026-08-02
Questions to ask a lawyer
Sixteen questions for a first consultation, grouped by scope, money, time, jurisdiction and communication — each paired with what a clear answer contains, and a ruled line to write the answer on. Two consultations are far easier to compare on paper than from memory.
PDF one-pager2 pagesUpdated 2026-08-02
Why these arrive by email
Every figure in these documents comes from a rule that changes — a guideline revised, a damage cap re-indexed, a county protest deadline moved before the spring season. A file downloaded once and kept becomes wrong without announcing it. Sending them by email keeps a single dated version in circulation, and lets us send the corrected sheet when a statute turns over. It is double opt-in, and unsubscribing takes one click.
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These documents are educational reference material, not legal, tax, financial, or benefits advice. Every agency named here makes its own determinations; the official sources are linked on each resource page.