Choosing a tool
Three fair comparisons for coaches and mediators deciding where the client document pile, the deadline list and the decision record should actually live.
Most software a divorce coach or family mediator evaluates was built for somebody else. Law firm platforms assume you are the attorney of record with a docket and a trust account. Service business tools assume the work ends when the agreement is signed and the payment clears. General workspaces assume you enjoy building the structure yourself and keeping it current through a case that runs eleven months and stalls twice.
TransitionBinder is narrower than all of them on purpose. It holds one binder per separation: the disclosure documents in the order a client can actually collect them, the deadline points a non attorney can reliably monitor, a dated log of what your client decided and what she knew at the time, and a summary you can hand her attorney without rewriting your notes. The pages below say plainly which sort of practice each option suits, and where the other option is the better answer.
TransitionBinder vs Clio
Clio belongs to the legal practice management category built for law firms, while TransitionBinder is built for the coach or mediator who sits beside the client and is not the attorney of record.
TransitionBinder vs HoneyBook
HoneyBook is built for the client management side of an independent service business, from first inquiry through agreement and payment, while TransitionBinder is built for the months of document and deadline work that follow.
TransitionBinder vs Notion
Notion is a flexible workspace where a capable coach can build exactly the client system she wants, while TransitionBinder ships with the separation structure already decided.
Free tools
Two working calculators for the two numbers that quietly decide whether a separation practice holds together, your real hourly rate and your real deadline load.
Working document
A working checklist for the four stages of a separation engagement, written for the coach or mediator who has to keep the documents, the dates and the decisions in one place.
Three comparisons narrow the choice; a working demo settles it. Bring one live separation, ideally the untidy one where statements arrive as phone photographs, and we will set up its four binder sections while you watch. Twenty minutes is usually enough to tell whether this fits your practice or whether a firm platform or your own workspace is the better answer for you.