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This is legal information, not legal advice. This page is reviewed against the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021, and current case law on AustLII — but not by a practising family-law solicitor. For advice on your matter, see Free legal help in Australia — Legal Aid, Community Legal Centres, Justice Connect, Women’s Legal Services, and Aboriginal Legal Services offer free or low-cost help.
The Settlement Planner is RYTZ’s property-settlement workspace. It walks the four-step process the Federal Circuit and Family Court applies under section 79 of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) — and produces a structured, defensible position on the asset pool, the contributions assessment, and the future-needs adjustments.

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The four steps

Step I — Asset pool

Identify every asset, liability, and financial resource. Real property, vehicles, super, businesses, debts. The pool is the starting point for everything else.

Step II — Contributions

Assess each party’s contributions over the relationship — financial, non-financial, parental, homemaker. The Stanford / Mallet line of authority frames how contributions are weighed.

Step III — Future needs

The 16 s75(2) factors — age, health, income capacity, care of children, length of relationship. Significant adjustments often flow from this step.

Step IV — Just & equitable

The court’s threshold question (Stanford v Stanford [2012] HCA 52). Is altering existing property interests just and equitable? If so, what’s the quantum?

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What the workspace produces

A complete settlement analysis with:
  • Asset pool table — every asset and liability with current value, ownership, and how it should be characterised
  • Contributions assessment — weighted across the four contribution categories with case-law citations
  • Future-needs adjustment — % adjustment under s75(2) with reasoning
  • Fairness analysis — the AI Fairness Analyser scores the proposed split against the s79 framework and flags deviation from typical outcomes
  • My Offers tracker — every offer made and rejected, with the date, terms, and how each compares to the analysed position. Offers become evidence of reasonableness under r10.05 of the Family Law Rules.

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When you’d use it

Negotiating directly with the other party

The structured analysis gives you a defensible position to anchor on. Your numbers are your numbers, traceable to the framework.

Preparing for FDR or settlement conference

Mediators work much better with structured proposals than free-form positions.

Drafting Consent Orders

The analysis output is the substantive content of the property orders block of a Consent Orders application.

Court proceedings

If matters go to a final hearing, the contributions and future-needs analysis is the structure your evidence and submissions will follow.

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Next

The s79 framework

The four-step process the court applies, with the case-law line for each step.
The Settlement Planner has substantial AI-assisted analysis — the Comprehensive Fairness Analyser runs your asset pool + contributions + future-needs through Claude with citations to landmark cases (Stanford, Mallet, Pierce, Polonius, Singerson, Bonnici, Kowaliw, McCalman, Williams, Kennon). This is where the Series-B-grade depth of the platform shows up.