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59 Judges J. 26 (2020)
Imagining an AI-Supported Self-Help Portal for Divorce

handle is hein.journals/judgej59 and id is 28 raw text is: IAagining an Al-Supported Self-Help Portal for Divorce By Alan Carlson \ hris and Sam have been married for 10 years. Lately their mar- \\ $riage has just not been working for them. After talking with friends and trying counseling, they decide that they want to get a divorce. Being millenni- als, they turn to their phones to find out what is involved in getting a divorce and to find a do-it-yourself divorce website. It shouldn't be too complicated, right? On their phone's web browser they enter how to get a divorce. What sort of results will their search reveal? What is Available Now Today the search results may include several types of assistance. Some websites provide basic information about divorce, some quite detailed.1 Others offer fillable court forms. Some offer dispute resolution services. Some offer assistance for particular issues, like child custody and visitation disputes. There will also be lawyer referral services or local lawyers willing to represent them for a fee. However, other than the lawyers, currently none of the options noted are able to guide them all the way through the legal process (as opposed to just descriptions of legal issues), negotiating issues they disagree on, and obtaining a divorce judgment signed by a judge. White there are some tools and websites to assist,2 and organizations have been working on this, there is not yet a one-stop shop website for a typical, not- too-complicated divorce appropriate for a majority of couples seeking divorce. Recent advances in technology could pro- vide self-represented litigants who are fudges' Joumai ° VOL. 59 NO. 1 Published in The Judges' Journal, Volume 59, Number 1, Winter 2020. © 2020 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association. 26

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