Built to be checked, not trusted blindly.

Search for a settlement calculator and most of what you find is a lead-capture form. You enter your medical bills and your lost wages; the site enters your phone number into a call queue. The arithmetic behind the number is never shown, because frequently there isn't any.

CaseValueCalc was built as the opposite of that. Every result opens into the formula that produced it and names the statute or published method underneath. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

Honesty about precision is the whole product. Some legal figures are fixed by statute and can be computed exactly. Others have no authoritative formula at all, and any site presenting them as a single confident number is misleading you.

So we stamp every result. Where a figure follows a statute, it is marked Exact. Where it is an approximation, it is marked Approximate, and the result names precisely what we have not verified.

• Texas child support follows the statutory formula in Tex. Fam. Code § 154.125 and is exact if your net resources figure is correct.
• Other states' child support uses a general income-shares model. It is a ballpark, not that state's official schedule, and it says so on the result.
• Injury settlements and alimony are returned as ranges, never single numbers, because no official formula exists for either.
• Filing deadlines add the state's limitation period to your incident date, with special handling where the law has changed — Louisiana's 2024 amendment being the clearest example.

Laws change, and a legal calculator that quietly goes stale is worse than no calculator at all. Two examples we track and have already implemented:

Texas raised the cap on monthly net resources from $9,200 to $11,700, effective September 1, 2025. Louisiana replaced its one-year prescriptive period for personal injury with two years under Civil Code article 3493.11, effective July 1, 2024 — and because the change applies prospectively only, an injury from June 2024 still carries the old one-year deadline. Our deadline tool applies the correct rule based on the date you enter.

Where our data is not yet individually verified, we say so on the result rather than implying a precision we don't have.

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