Affidavit review is one of the most time-consuming tasks in family law. Probative exists to give practitioners a rigorous head start — faster, cheaper, without replacing professional judgment.
Every affidavit needs to be read. Every paragraph needs to be assessed. Hearsay, inadmissible opinion, credibility risks, form objections — the same issues, the same analysis, case after case.
"The hours spent manually reviewing admissibility and drafting objections add up quickly — and that time gets billed to clients who are already under financial pressure."
Probative doesn’t replace that analysis. It gives practitioners a rigorous head start — a paragraph–by–paragraph review against the Evidence Act 1995 and the Family Law Act, delivered in seconds, for a fraction of what it costs to do manually.
The result lands in your hands as a structured report — every paragraph assessed, issues flagged, rewrites suggested. You review it, apply your judgment, and decide what to run with. The analysis is yours. The strategy is yours. Probative just gets you there faster.
Probative applies Australian evidentiary standards to every numbered paragraph of an affidavit — identifying admissibility issues, flagging credibility risks, and suggesting rewrites where the paragraph can be saved.
It runs at the level of rigour you’d expect from a careful junior review. But it doesn’t know your client, your strategy, your judge, or the forensic context. That’s your job — and it always will be.
All output must be independently reviewed before use. Probative is a tool, not advice.
Hearsay and exceptions under s.59–s.75
Opinion evidence — lay (s.78) and expert (s.79)
Tendency and coincidence evidence (ss.97–98)
Credibility issues under s.102NL
Relevance and weight under s.55 and s.135
Form objections including s.50 summary tables
Interim vs Final Hearing evidentiary distinctions
Suggested rewrites for salvageable paragraphs
Probative was built by a team of Australian lawyers — including King’s Counsel and members of the junior bar from multiple jurisdictions — who have spent years doing exactly this work: reviewing affidavits, taking objections, and preparing for hearing.
The analysis logic was developed with direct practitioner input. Every rule, every exception, every nuance in the evidentiary standards was deliberately considered and tested against real affidavit content.
We built Probative because we wanted it to exist — not as a gimmick, and not as a replacement for careful analytical work, but as a tool that makes that work faster, cheaper for clients, and less exhausting for the practitioners who do it every day.
Questions about the platform, feedback, or enquiries about firm accounts — we’d like to hear from you.