The court order says 60/40 for medical expenses. The only app available forces 50/50. So every medical bill becomes a dispute. Every submission gets the same note in the comments field: "PLEASE PAY 60% PER COURT ORDER." The co-parent disputes it anyway. The attorney gets called. The cycle repeats.
This is not an edge case. The most common court-ordered expense ratio is 60/40. Every major co-parenting app gets this wrong.
On Standard and Pro, each expense category gets its own independently configured split ratio. Set it once — or let it auto-populate from your court order.
Every time you submit an expense, the correct split calculates automatically. Both parents see the amounts before any action is taken.
OurFamilyWizard’s receipt attachment only works reliably on desktop. Parents stand in a pharmacy, prescription in hand, and have to remember to submit the expense later on a computer. Many don’t. The record is incomplete before a dispute even starts.
Tap the camera icon, photograph the receipt, and the app extracts the merchant name, date, and total amount automatically. You confirm the extracted values — or edit them if anything is off — and submit. The whole process takes under a minute on the device already in your pocket.
At the top of the expense ledger, one number shows the net position across all approved and unsettled expenses. No spreadsheets. No end-of-month calculation. No “I thought we settled that in March.”
The balance updates in real time as expenses are approved, disputed, or settled. Both parents always see the same number.
Monthly childcare. Weekly therapy. Regular school fees. Set a recurring template once — the amount, the category, the split, the date it generates — and the app submits it automatically on schedule.
The co-parent still approves each instance individually. The recurring template generates the submission; it does not auto-approve anything. The legal record of their agreement to each expense is preserved every time.
“27 separate disputes in 18 months. All about the same ratio error.”
What happenedPriya’s divorce decree specified 60% father / 40% mother for extraordinary expenses including medical and therapy. OurFamilyWizard only allowed 50/50. She added a note to every single submission: “Please pay 60% per court order.” Her ex disputed every single one. She filed 27 separate expense disputes in 18 months. Each dispute cost her an attorney consultation.
With Parenting Path, the 60/40 ratio was configured once from her uploaded court order. It applied automatically from that point on. Her ex’s first response to a new submission: “Why is my share showing as $136?” His second: “Oh — that’s 40%. Fine.” Zero disputes in the following six months.
The Free plan includes expense tracking with 50/50 splits — useful for families where the court-ordered ratio happens to be even, or for getting started before upgrading.