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The Evidence Portfolio is RYTZ’s evidence vault. It is where you collect, organise, and prepare every piece of evidence your matter touches — from a screenshot of an SMS exchange three months ago, through to the affidavit annexures you’ll file at the court door. It is one of the most-trafficked surfaces on the platform because evidence is what wins (or loses) family-law matters. Court submissions, FDR positions, parenting-plan readiness, settlement contributions arguments — all of them are only as strong as the underlying evidence stack.

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Why the platform handles evidence as a first-class surface

Evidence in Australian family-law matters is governed by the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021. Both impose specific demands:
  • Provenance and authenticity — the court needs to know where evidence came from and that it has not been tampered with.
  • Admissibility — hearsay, opinion, and improperly obtained evidence may be excluded.
  • Disclosure — there is an ongoing obligation to disclose all relevant evidence (Part VIIIB of the Family Law Rules; from June 2025 these obligations sit in the Family Law Act itself with stronger penalties for non-compliance).
  • Form and bundling — evidence presented to court has to be ordered, paginated, indexed, and (for affidavit annexures) labelled in a specific way.
A folder of unsorted phone screenshots fails most of these. The Evidence Portfolio is built so the evidence you collect organically — in the moment, when something happens — is captured in a way that holds up later.
Evidence collection is one of the few aspects of family-law matters where amateur effort genuinely competes with professional. A diligent self-represented parent who captures evidence carefully, dates it accurately, and bundles it methodically will often produce a better evidence stack than a busy lawyer would — because you are closest to the events.

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What sits inside

The Portfolio is organised by evidence type and by calendar event. Both views show the same underlying items.

By evidence type

Photographs · Documents · Correspondence (SMS, email, messaging apps) · Audio recordings · Video · Notes you take yourself · Third-party records (school reports, medical notes, police records). Each type has type-appropriate metadata fields.

By calendar event

Anchor evidence to dates — the changeover that didn’t happen, the medical appointment your ex didn’t show up to, the school event you missed because of a sudden re-routing. Calendar view shows the day’s evidence at a glance.

By search + filter

Full-text search over filenames, descriptions, and your own notes. Filter by date range, evidence type, source classification (mine / other party / court / professional), or bundle membership.

By bundle

Curated subsets prepared for a specific use — Annexure JL-1 to your interim affidavit, the disclosure bundle for FDR, the chronology pack for your barrister.

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Three sub-surfaces

The Portfolio is more than just a vault. Three sub-surfaces handle different jobs:

The vault itself

/evidence-portfolio — upload, tag, search. The day-to-day surface where new evidence lands.

Stage Review

/evidence-portfolio/stage-review — one-card-at-a-time review of AI proposals about which stage of court each piece is most relevant to. Keyboard shortcuts (A / C / S / R) for fast triage.

Court Readiness Matrix

/evidence-portfolio/court-readiness — three-tier dashboard showing readiness percentage for each court stage. Spot the gaps before the other side does.

Bundles for court

Curate a subset of evidence for a specific filing — affidavit annexures, FDR disclosure bundle, court-book exhibits.

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How the platform handles privacy

Evidence in family-law matters is some of the most sensitive data a person will ever store anywhere — children’s medical records, family-violence history, intimate communications, financial detail. The platform treats it accordingly:
  • Encrypted at rest and in transit. Storage is in Australian-jurisdiction data centres (see Privacy and data for full detail).
  • Access scoped to you alone. RYTZ staff cannot read your evidence. The AI assistant can be invoked over selected items (see How the AI assistant works for the boundary), but not over the vault by default.
  • Lawyer access only when you grant it. If you engage a family-law solicitor through RYTZ’s professional collaboration surface (a future feature on the consumer app), access is per-document, time-bound, and revocable.
  • Export is yours. You own your evidence. Bulk export to ZIP is available under Account → Privacy and data.
Family-violence note. If you are in a family-violence situation and you are concerned about your device being monitored, take care with what you photograph and where you store it. The platform’s safe-exit feature (a one-click “leave site without trace” button) is enabled by default for users with family-violence disclosed in their case file. See Setting up your case file for the disclosure step.

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Where this connects to the rest of the platform

Evidence in the Portfolio flows into the rest of the platform:
  • Affidavits (see Prepare an affidavit) reference Portfolio items as annexures. Annexure labels (JL-1, JL-2, …) are auto-assigned in the order they’re cited.
  • Settlement Planner pulls financial documents (bank statements, super statements, valuations) when you import them through the document import wizard.
  • Master Case File (see Master Case File overview) auto-includes high-relevance evidence in its synthesised case document.
  • AI assistant can be asked questions like “what evidence do I have about Sarah’s ex’s drinking around the children?” and will surface relevant items from the Portfolio (when you grant per-conversation access).

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What’s next

Uploading + organising

The day-to-day flow — capture, tag, find later.

Stage Review

AI-proposed stage assignment with one-card-at-a-time triage.

Court Readiness Matrix

See your readiness percentage by court stage at a glance.

Bundles for court

Curate evidence subsets for a specific filing or hearing.