Financial Disclosure Review Against Bank, Pay and Tax Records (Family Law)
Reconciles a financial disclosure or affidavit, yours or the other party's, against the bank statements, pay records and tax documents you paste. It recomputes the arithmetic, lists accounts and income in the documents that the disclosure omits, lists unexplained transfers, and drafts follow-up document requests.
The Prompt
Variables (8)
| Variable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| {{matter_name}} | Matter Name | Reyes v. Reyes |
| {{disclosure_owner}} | Whose Disclosure | The other party |
| {{review_period}} | Period Under Review | January 2025 through August 2026 |
| {{financial_disclosure}} | Financial Disclosure | Income: wages $6,200/month. Expenses: rent $1,800, car $540. Accounts: First Mesa checking ending 4417, balance $3,150. Total monthly income $6,200; total expenses $2,340. |
| {{disclosure_rules}} | Disclosure Rules or NONE | NONE |
| {{bank_statements}} | Bank and Account Statements | First Mesa checking 4417, 03/2026: deposits 03/01 payroll $2,890; 03/15 payroll $2,890; 03/18 transfer in from Coastline savings 9902 $4,000. Coastline savings 9902 statement 03/2026: balance $18,420. |
| {{pay_and_tax}} | Pay Records and Tax Documents | Pay stub 03/15/2026: gross $3,310, net $2,890, YTD gross $16,550. 2025 Form 1099-NEC: $7,400 from Harbor Design LLC. |
| {{attorney_instructions}} | Attorney Instructions or NONE | List transfers over $1,000. Focus on 2026. |
Expected Output
Conflicts between sources; the arithmetic with each running sum and each difference from a stated total; a line-by-line reconciliation table (disclosed amount, matching record, record amount, difference, status); accounts and income that appear in the records but not in the disclosure; transfers with their dates, amounts and counterparties; a working list of follow-up document requests; missing information, unsupported statements declined and declined requests; and a closing Verification list.
Usage Notes
Use when a financial disclosure or affidavit arrives, or before you sign your own client's. Paste the full disclosure and the records for the period; incomplete records will produce rows marked as having no matching record, which means only that the pasted documents do not show one. Failure mode to watch: arithmetic on pay frequency and an unstated conversion factor, and any wording that implies concealment. Recheck every sum and read each omission as a question for the client or the other side, not a finding. Not legal advice. The attorney remains responsible for verifying every fact, figure and authority before use.
Double-check before use
- Check that accounts held by someone other than the disclosing party are left out of every list. In testing, a non-party's deposit still appeared among the omissions.
These are the places where this prompt was seen to slip when tested on sample cases with a small AI model.
Originally featured in: Prompt Engineering for Lawyers: The Complete 2026 Guide
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