If you've ever spent a weekend screenshotting texts, scrolling back through calendars, or stitching together dates for your lawyer, you know the drill: documentation is the difference between a clean custody case and a messy one. The new Invite Your Attorney feature in Kidtime turns that weekend scramble into a two-tap invite — and sets the stage for a dedicated attorney dashboard later this year.

Why attorney access matters in coparenting

Family law attorneys don't need your opinion of what happened — they need records. Dates. Timestamps. Message threads their paralegal can pull without playing detective. When the other parent contests time-share numbers, "I think it was around last February" loses every time against a timestamped, uneditable export.

Kidtime already tracks all of this automatically:

• Every custody swap is logged
• Every message is timestamped and immutable
• Every note and photo lives in a searchable journal
• Overnight counts roll up into monthly and yearly reports

The only thing missing was a clean way to get it into your attorney's hands.

How Invite Your Attorney works

From your group settings, tap Invite Attorney and enter their email. We send a branded invite with a link to kidtime.app where they can accept access and sign in.

They'll see the same records you see — schedule, messages, notes, analytics — with two important differences:

1. Read-only. Your attorney can view everything but cannot send messages, edit notes, or change the schedule.
2. On-demand export. You or your attorney can email a full record snapshot to any address in seconds.

What gets exported

The export is built for legal workflows, not marketing:

• Messages — full chat history with timestamps, read receipts, and attachments
• Custody schedule — current and historical patterns, with overnight counts broken down by parent
• Notes and photos — journal entries, incident notes, and any attached media
• Time analytics — automatic custody-percentage reports month by month

Every field is timestamped at source. Nothing is editable after send. If your jurisdiction has a specific affidavit requirement, your attorney can wrap the export with their own cover sheet.

A dashboard is coming

The invite flow shipping today is the first step. The next phase is a dedicated attorney dashboard: a single view where lawyers can switch between clients, save common searches, and pull exports without ever leaving the browser. If you invite your attorney now, they'll be upgraded automatically when the dashboard ships — no re-invite, no re-auth.

When to loop in your attorney

You don't need an active case to set this up. Inviting your attorney early means:

• They already have the records if something escalates
• You're not scrambling the weekend before a hearing
• Your attorney can review patterns over time instead of point-in-time snapshots
• Mediators and parenting coordinators can be invited the same way

Getting started

1. Open Kidtime and go to Settings → Group
2. Tap Invite Attorney
3. Enter their email
4. Done — they accept on the web, no app download required

Learn more about attorney access →

The bottom line

Custody cases are won on paper, not feeling. Kidtime already captures the paper. Invite your attorney and make sure the right person has it.