For the two of you
Arrive decided.
A separation asks two people to make about 200 decisions while they are least able to talk. Evenly gives you a calm, structured way to make them together, see the math, and walk into your first professional meeting already organized.
Hello, Maya
39% of the way through
96 of 302 settled
7 waiting on you
Next: 7 questions Daniel has answered
Daniel proposed a resolution
Holiday rotation
Review it and confirm or decline with a note.
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
Decisions in a typical separation
300+
The count in our guided deck: parenting, money, house, everything. See all of them.
What a professional costs while you decide
$350/hr
Median matrimonial rates commonly run $250 to $400 an hour. Deciding on the meter is the expensive part.
Typical delay from incomplete disclosure
2 months
Financial disclosure is where amicable processes stall.
While you have been reading
At $400 an hour, the top of the range above, a conversation costs about $7 a minute whoever is having it.
Where the hours actually go
An attorney or a mediator bills for the time you spend deciding in front of them. Most of what there is to decide is not contested: it is a schedule neither of you has thought about yet, a rule you would both write the same way, a number you have not sat down with. Those hours are the expensive way to do the easy part.
Arrive with those already answered and the meter runs only on what is genuinely between you: the handful of things two people want differently and need a third to help settle. That is what a professional is for, and it is a much shorter list than the one you start with.
How it works
Four phases, in the order they actually happen.
Decide.
One question at a time, with why it matters and what a court does if you never agree. Answer on your own time, at your own pace.
Gather.
Every document a settlement needs, in one checklist. Link accounts if you want balances to fill themselves in.
Compare.
See where you already agree, where you differ, and what neither of you has answered. Nothing becomes final until the other person confirms it.
Hand off.
Export a term sheet, an open-items agenda, and an organized disclosure file. Your professional starts at the end instead of the beginning.
Holidays · 4 of 13
Tier AHow do winter school breaks alternate?
Daniel's answer shows the moment yours is in.
Winter break spans two holidays and travel. Naming the pattern now removes a yearly negotiation later.
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
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Weeknight schedule
Settled2-2-3 rotation, handoff after school.
2-2-3 rotation, handoff after school.
Who keeps the dogs
DifferentBiscuit and Pepper stay together, with me.
Dogs follow Iris on the schedule.
College savings
WaitingSample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
W-1 · Child support
The arithmetic
Steps
1. Add both incomes, less FICA.
2. Apply the statutory cap to the combined amount.
3. Apply the one-child rate of 17%.
4. Prorate by each share of the combined income.
Maya is the payor on these figures, at $1,822 a month before adjustments.
Both incomes set by Daniel on Mar 02, from the 2025 returns
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
Accounts
Under Maya
Hudson Valley Federal
SharedMeridian Savings
Private to youSynced this morning
Sharing is per institution and reversible. Until you share one, Daniel cannot see its balance, its transactions, or that it exists.
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Expenses
This period · Mar 1 to Mar 15
Iris · school · Mar 04 · paid by Maya$84
Iris · medical · Mar 11 · paid by Daniel$180
Iris · activities · Mar 13 · paid by Daniel$110
Maya owes Daniel $97 to even the period.
Split 67/33, the share of combined income each of you carries under W-1, not halves.
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
Print center
Modules
Open onlyAnswers written on paper are typed back in and wait for whoever wrote them to confirm. Nothing counts until the person who said it says so.
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
Built for two
Nothing settles until you both say so.
Every other tool in this category has one user and one side. Evenly has two co-equal people and no sides. You each answer privately. You see each other's answers when you are both ready. A decision is settled only when one of you proposes and the other confirms. The app cannot take a position, and neither person can decide for both.
Propose and confirm
A resolution needs the other person. Always.
Attributed
Every answer, edit, and number carries a name and a date.
No scoreboards
No streaks, no win rates, no analytics about either of you.
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Weeknight schedule
Settled2-2-3 rotation, handoff after school.
2-2-3 rotation, handoff after school.
Who keeps the dogs
DifferentBiscuit and Pepper stay together, with me.
Dogs follow Iris on the schedule.
College savings
WaitingSample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
W-1 · Child support
The arithmetic
Steps
1. Add both incomes, less FICA.
2. Apply the statutory cap to the combined amount.
3. Apply the one-child rate of 17%.
4. Prorate by each share of the combined income.
Maya is the payor on these figures, at $1,822 a month before adjustments.
Both incomes set by Daniel on Mar 02, from the 2025 returns
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
The money, computed
Every number shows its work.
Child support, maintenance, the house, the whole ledger. Common Ground computes from the statute and shows every step of the arithmetic with its citation, so both of you can check it and so can your lawyer. In New York that means the CSSA and maintenance guidelines, current caps, effective dates included. The app never tells you what is fair. It tells you what the law says and lets you decide.
Figures in this screen: the Ellis sample matter
See the money pagesIn the current release
Linked accounts.
Connect banks through Plaid and balances flow into your worksheets. Each account is private to its owner until they choose to share it. Sharing is per institution and reversible.
The paper edition.
Print any part of the process as a well-formatted packet: question decks with room for a pen, worksheets as forms. Answers on paper count when their owner confirms them in the app. Nobody is forced onto a screen.
Pre-filing checklist.
A guided sequence of what to do before anyone files, including what freezes the moment a case starts, with the statute that says so.
Between the big decisions
The logistics have a home too.
The custody calendar both of you can read at a glance. Swap requests with a clean yes or no. Shared expenses with a running settle-up computed from your actual support ratio. Handoff notes, a care card, travel consent letters. Small frictions, handled quietly, so the big conversations stay about the big things.
See the everydayMarch
2-2-3
Tuesday, March 17
Maya has Iris. St Patrick's parade, handover at 3:00pm at the school, from the answer on holidays.
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
Expenses
This period · Mar 1 to Mar 15
Iris · school · Mar 04 · paid by Maya$84
Iris · medical · Mar 11 · paid by Daniel$180
Iris · activities · Mar 13 · paid by Daniel$110
Maya owes Daniel $97 to even the period.
Split 67/33, the share of combined income each of you carries under W-1, not halves.
Sample matter · Daniel and Maya Ellis · not real people
The line it never crosses
Some features are missing on purpose.
No advice.
It states rules with citations. It never tells either of you what to choose.
No sides.
It serves you both identically. It cannot be hired by one of you.
No agreements.
It produces summaries for professional review, never documents to sign. Your lawyer drafts; independent review is the point.
No pings at dinner.
One weekly summary. The two things that genuinely need you, batched daily. Quiet hours by default.
No trackers.
No ads, no data sale, no analytics companies. Your matter is not a product.
No AI opinions.
No suggested compromises, no summaries of the other person's words, no tone analysis. Software that took a position stopped being neutral ground.
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