Free reading, no account required. Most of family court is not won in the courtroom — it's won (and lost) in the texts and emails between hearings. These are the patterns and frameworks Compass was built around. Skim what's relevant. Bookmark what isn't yet.
Roughly 72% of people in family court don't have an attorney. What to bring, what to wear, what to say to the judge, how to handle cross-examination, what evidence is admissible — and the eleven mistakes self-represented parents make in their first hearing.
Read · 14 min →Brief. Informative. Friendly. Firm. Four words that change every hostile-text reply you'll ever send. Eight worked examples and the three traps that kill it.
Read · 9 min →What to bring, what to wear, what to say. Cross-examination, evidence rules, and the eleven mistakes self-represented parents make in their first hearing.
14 min read →Age-by-age scripts (3-6, 7-10, 11-14, 15-18), the seven alienation traps to avoid, and when to involve a therapist.
11 min read →The all-purpose line, the three audiences that matter, and how to handle the in-laws, the school, and the friends who picked a side.
10 min read →Brief, Informative, Friendly, Firm — and the three rewrites that turn every reactive draft into one that survives a hearing.
9 min read →Give nothing emotional to react to. Why the technique works, when it backfires, and how to do it without looking dismissive in front of a judge.
7 min read →The format judges actually read. Timelines, screenshots, naming conventions, and the four-column log that walks into court with you.
12 min read →Why every Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring break, and birthday weekend turns into a fight — and the BIFF script that ends the cycle.
6 min read →Family-court judges look at exhibits for thirty seconds, not three hours. The shape of an exhibit binder that gets read.
8 min read →Your worst replies are written between 10 PM and 1 AM. The science of late-night judgment, and the thirty-minute pause that fixes it.
5 min read →More guides coming. Have a topic you want covered? Email help@compassfamily.app — we read everything.
Knowing about BIFF doesn't help when it's 11 PM and the text just hit. Compass writes the reply for you, holds it behind a cooldown, and copies cleanly into iMessage.