Terms of Use & Legal Disclaimer
Last updated: June 2026. Please read these Terms carefully. By using Footing you agree to all of them.
1. Not a law firm; no legal advice
Footing is a self-help information and document-preparation tool operated by A2BE Inc. It is not a law firm, lawyer referral service, or substitute for an attorney, and it does not practice law. Nothing on Footing — including guides, the firm finder, generated documents, AI output, or any communication — is legal advice, and none of it is a recommendation about what you should do in your case. General legal information is not the same as legal advice for your situation.
2. No attorney-client relationship
Using Footing, creating an account, or generating a document does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Footing, A2BE Inc., or anyone associated with them. No confidential or fiduciary relationship is formed. Communications with Footing are not privileged.
3. You must consult a licensed attorney
Family law is complex and fact-specific, and getting it wrong can permanently affect your rights, your finances, and your children. You should have a licensed Connecticut attorney review your situation and any document before you rely on it or file it with a court. If you cannot afford an attorney, contact Connecticut Statewide Legal Services or the Connecticut Judicial Branch's court service centers. Footing can connect you with an independent attorney through AVOWAL, but the choice to obtain counsel is yours and is strongly recommended.
4. You are responsible for your own case
You — and only you — are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and filing of everything in your case, including any document prepared with Footing. You are responsible for verifying every fact, date, dollar amount, legal citation, court rule, deadline, and form version before use. Footing does not file anything for you, does not appear in court for you, and does not ensure any document is accepted by a court.
5. No warranty; accuracy not guaranteed
Footing is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, or non-infringement. Laws, court rules, forms, and case law change, and information on Footing may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. AI-generated content may contain errors. Court forms are provided by linking to third-party government sources we do not control. We do not warrant that Footing will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
6. No guarantee of any outcome
Footing does not promise, predict, or guarantee any result in any legal matter. Statistics, patterns, and firm profiles describe public records and general tendencies only — they are not predictions about your case and not a recommendation for or against any attorney or firm.
7. Assumption of risk; limitation of liability
You assume all risk from using Footing. To the fullest extent permitted by law, A2BE Inc. and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and affiliates will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for any lost rights, claims, opportunities, money, time, or adverse court outcome, arising from or related to your use of (or inability to use) Footing — even if advised of the possibility. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to Footing will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the prior twelve months or US $100.
8. Release and indemnification
You release A2BE Inc. and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and affiliates from any and all claims, demands, and damages arising out of or connected with your use of Footing or any document or information obtained through it. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold them harmless from any claim, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of Footing, your documents or filings, or your violation of these Terms.
9. Unauthorized practice of law
Footing provides scrivener/self-help and information services and does not select legal strategies for you, does not tell you what to do, and does not exercise legal judgment on your behalf. Any decisions about your case are yours, made by you or with your own attorney.
10. Privacy & your information
This section explains what information Footing collects, how we first use it to give you the service, and the other ways we reserve the right to use it. Footing is a free self-help tool, not a law firm, and nothing in this section is legal advice.
What we collect. When you create an account, we collect your email address so we can send you a one-time, passwordless sign-in link. When you use Footing, you may give us details about your case — the parties, judicial district, court location, docket number, your role, the answers you provide to our drafting questions, and the documents Footing helps you assemble.
Information we retrieve from public court records. If you use the docket look-up or sync feature, Footing retrieves information about your case from the Connecticut Judicial Branch public case look-up at jud.ct.gov and stores it with your matter so you can work from it. This may include the parties, attorneys and appearances, the history of motions, pleadings, and orders on the docket, scheduled court dates, and the case type and status. These court records are already public; our retrieval and storage of them is in addition to their public availability. What we look up may include details about other people in your case, such as the other party and the attorneys involved.
Sensitive and children's information. Family cases often involve sensitive information, including information about children. Only enter what you need to, and understand that anything you enter or look up is handled as described in this section.
How we first use your information. We first use your information to provide the service — for example, to save your work and help you assemble your own documents.
How we also use your information (statistics, patterns, research, and improvement). We reserve the right to use the information we collect from you and the case information we retrieve for you — including in aggregated (combined with information from many other people) and/or de-identified (stripped of details that directly identify you) form — for statistical analysis, pattern and trend analysis, research, and to improve Footing and our related products and services. For example, we might count how often a type of motion is filed across many cases. We may do this using your information directly, in aggregated form, and in de-identified form. When we say de-identified, we mean we have taken reasonable steps to remove information that identifies you; because court records are public, we cannot guarantee that de-identified information can never be linked back to you.
Retention and selling. We may retain information for as long as we need it to provide the service and for the statistical, pattern, research, and improvement purposes described above, which may be indefinite for aggregated or de-identified information. You can ask us to close your account; after that, some information may still remain in backups or in aggregated or de-identified data sets. We do not sell your personal identifying information to third parties for their own advertising. This does not limit the reserved statistical, pattern, research, improvement, aggregated, de-identified, or public-record uses described above. We may share information with the service providers who help us run Footing, and with A2BE Inc.'s related products and services, to operate and improve Footing as described above.
Your responsibilities and security. Do not enter information you are not authorized to share, and keep access to your account secure. We take reasonable steps to protect information, but no website or method of storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
12. Changes
We may update these Terms; continued use after changes means you accept the updated Terms.
Questions: contact A2BE Inc. Footing is a self-help resource, not a law firm. For advice about your specific situation, consult a licensed Connecticut attorney.