For family law solicitors

Stop billing hours for sorting screenshots.

Beacon is an Irish co-parenting app that keeps both parents' messages, calendar, handovers, expenses and maintenance in one time-stamped record that neither parent can edit or delete. Your client can give you secure, view-only access — so the evidence arrives organised, chronological and intact.

The “shoebox” problem

  • Clients arrive with hundreds of out-of-order WhatsApp screenshots, forwarded emails and edited threads — selective, croppable and open to challenge.
  • Piecing them into a chronology for an affidavit is hours of low-value billable work that clients resent paying for.
  • Every late pickup and midnight text becomes a phone call to your office instead of an entry in a record you can review when it actually matters.

What view-only access gives you

Your client taps “Invite my solicitor” in the app and you receive a secure link by email — no account, no password, no setup. Opening it shows the full record:

  • Messages, calendar, handovers, expenses and maintenance — time-stamped, chronological and unedited, including late arrivals and cancellations.
  • A record nobody can rewrite. Both parents are photo-ID verified and messages can never be edited or deleted — by anyone, including administrators.
  • A Court-Ready Record on demand. When proceedings call for it, your client generates a tamper-evident, chronological PDF of the most recent 12 months, carrying a data-integrity fingerprint and formatted for the Irish family courts — in seconds, for a one-off €129. A fraction of the billable hours it replaces. (Admissibility remains, as always, a matter for the court.)

See a sample Court-Ready Record (PDF)

Generated from a fictional demonstration family and watermarked as such.

Built-in guardrails you can rely on

View-only

You can read everything; you can change nothing. The record stays exactly as the parents wrote it.

Time-limited

Access expires automatically after the period your client chooses — nothing lingers.

Revocable

Your client can withdraw the link at any time, and a withdrawn link never works again.

Encrypted and GDPR-compliant. Access is granted by your client, not by us — you see one family's record and nothing else.

What it costs your client

The app is free for both parents — every day-to-day tool (messaging, calendar, handovers, expenses, maintenance log) with no subscription — and the only paid items are optional extras: the €129 Court-Ready Record download and additional moderator contacts. Inviting you to view the record costs nothing.

Make it standard practice

The next time a client walks in with a shoebox of screenshots, send them to app.beaconparenting.ie before the evidence gets any messier. Sign-up takes minutes, both parents verify with photo ID, and one parent can build a verified record even before the other joins. Built in Ireland and supported by professionals experienced with the Irish family courts, including Section 32 (Voice of the Child) reports.

Open the practitioner's guideApply to join our county directory

The practitioner's guide includes a copy-paste clause for separation agreements, mediation terms and draft orders. The directory lists family law solicitors by county to parents inside the app — listing is free of charge for your firm (and, as above, the app itself is free for parents, with the Court-Ready Record and extra moderator contacts as the only optional paid extras).