Terms of Service

1. These terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and WebRoyal, which builds and operates LawCat (“LawCat”, “we”, “us”). They cover the LawCat website at law.cat, the LawCat app, and the LawCat connector for AI assistants (together, the “Service”). By using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. LawCat is not a law firm

• LawCat is self-help software that fills in court forms from the answers you give. It is not a law firm, is not staffed by attorneys acting for you, and does not give legal advice.
• Using LawCat does not create an attorney-client relationship with LawCat or with anyone else. Your communications with LawCat are not protected by attorney-client privilege.
• Our guides, eligibility checks, state information and tool results are general information about court procedures. They are not advice about your situation, and they do not tell you which choices to make.
• LawCat does not check whether your answers are legally sufficient, whether a form is right for your case, or whether you should agree to any term. If your situation is complicated, contested, or you are unsure of your rights, talk to an attorney.

3. You are responsible for your filings

• You are responsible for giving accurate and complete information and for reviewing every document before you sign or file it.
• LawCat prepares drafts. Documents are not signed, not notarized, not filed with any court, and not served on anyone by LawCat. LawCat does not file documents for you.
• You decide whether, where and when to file, and you are responsible for signing, notarization, filing, service, court fees, deadlines and following your court’s rules. Courts change forms, fees and local requirements; check with your court before filing.
• Some forms or steps your case needs may not be included. LawCat tells you what it knows is not included, but that list may not be complete for your case.

4. Estimates are estimates

Child support amounts, filing fees, timelines and similar figures shown by LawCat are estimates based on published guidelines and sources as of the dates shown. They may not reflect every rule, deviation or local practice that applies to you. The court’s official worksheet and the judge’s decision control. Do not rely on an estimate as the amount you will pay or receive.

5. Attorneys in the LawCat network

LawCat may show you a way to contact an attorney in the LawCat network. Those attorneys are independent of LawCat. They did not prepare, review or endorse LawCat’s forms, and LawCat does not recommend, supervise or guarantee their work. Showing you a way to contact an attorney is not a judgment about your case or about that attorney’s fit for it. LawCat does not charge you for the introduction. Any engagement, fees and attorney-client relationship are between you and the attorney, on the attorney’s own terms. You are free to hire any attorney you choose.

6. Fees and refunds

Preparing documents with LawCat is free for individuals unless we clearly say otherwise before you start. If we offer a paid product or service, its price and refund terms are shown at checkout, and those terms apply to that purchase together with any refund rights the law gives you. Court filing fees and other government fees are paid to the court or agency, not to LawCat. Fees for an attorney you hire are set by that attorney.

7. Your account

• You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into this agreement.
• Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us through our support page if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for activity on your account.
• Use LawCat for your own case. Do not prepare documents for someone else unless the law allows it and you have their permission.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service for anything unlawful, fraudulent or misleading, including filing false information with a court;
• enter information about another person that you have no right to use;
• send Social Security numbers, account passwords or payment card numbers through the AI connector;
• try to get into accounts, data or systems you are not authorized to use, or test, scan or break our security;
• overload the Service, scrape it in bulk, or use automated means to create accounts; or
• copy, resell or reverse engineer the Service, except as the law allows.

We may suspend or close accounts, revoke connector access or refuse requests that break these Terms or put others at risk.

9. Using LawCat through an AI assistant

• The LawCat connector lets AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude use LawCat tools when you connect your LawCat account. Connecting is optional, and you can disconnect at any time in your assistant’s settings.
• When you connect, you allow the assistant to send LawCat the information a tool needs and to receive the results, as described in our Privacy Policy.
• The assistant is provided by another company under its own terms. LawCat does not control what the assistant says. It may misunderstand, summarize incorrectly or add information that did not come from LawCat. Rely on the documents LawCat produces and on official court sources, not on the assistant’s wording.
• Direct New York packet generation through the connector is held pending review. The connector provides general information and links to case intake. Selected drafts available in the LawCat app remain subject to their own case-path and review limits; no complete nationwide filing packet is promised.
• The connector does not file, sign or send anything, and it cannot read your LawCat case.
• We may change, limit or stop the connector or any tool at any time.

10. Your content

You own the information and files you give us. You give LawCat permission to store, process and use them only as needed to provide the Service to you, as described in our Privacy Policy. The documents prepared for you are yours to use for your case.

11. LawCat’s software

LawCat’s software, design and content (other than official court forms and your content) belong to WebRoyal. We give you a personal, non-transferable right to use the Service under these Terms. Official court forms remain public documents of the courts that publish them.

12. Other websites

LawCat links to official court websites, legal aid organizations, scheduling services and other sites we do not control. We are not responsible for their content, availability or practices.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, LawCat disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not promise that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any form is current or accepted by a particular court, or that using LawCat will lead to any particular result in your case.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, LawCat and WebRoyal will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, court outcomes, missed deadlines or rejected filings, arising from or related to the Service, even if we were told they were possible. Our total liability for all claims related to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid LawCat in the 12 months before the claim or US $100. Some places do not allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you.

15. Your responsibility to us

If you break these Terms or the law, or file false information using the Service, and that causes a claim against LawCat, you agree to cover LawCat’s reasonable losses and costs from that claim, to the extent the law allows.

16. Ending use

You can stop using LawCat at any time and ask us to delete your account. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms or if we stop offering the Service. Sections that by their nature should continue (such as disclaimers, limits of liability and governing law) continue after your use ends.

17. Disputes

Before bringing a claim, please contact us through our support page so we can try to resolve it. Nothing in these Terms takes away rights that the law where you live gives you and does not allow you to waive.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version here and change the “Last updated” date. If a change is material, we will tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect. Using the Service after the change means you accept it.

19. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and LawCat about the Service. If part of these Terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms; we may transfer them to a successor of the Service.

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms: use the support page.