Editorial policy

How divvi writes about Utah law

divvi publishes information about divorce, and people make decisions with it. This page says how that information is made, who checks it, and what divvi will not claim — so you can judge whether to trust it rather than take our word for it.

Where the law comes from

Utah divorce is governed by Title 81 of the Utah Code, which replaced the old Title 30 in a recodification effective in 2025. Everything divvi publishes uses Title 81. Our statute library links every entry to the Legislature’s own text at le.utah.gov, so you can check us in one click.

Where a repealed Title 30 section has no confirmed Title 81 successor in the Legislature’s recodification outline, we mark the citation “verification pending” rather than guess at a replacement. Two entries in the library currently carry that label. A plausible-looking citation that nobody has verified is worse than an honest gap.

How an article gets written and who reviews it

  1. The topic is chosen from real search demand — what Utah residents are actually asking Google, read from Search Console, rather than guessed at.
  2. The draft is AI-assisted. We think you should know that. It is not published as written.
  3. A person reviews every article before it goes live. Drafts open as a pull request and nothing merges itself; an unreviewed draft is a pending change, not a live page.
  4. There is a two-week gap between merge and publication, which exists so a mistake can be caught while it is still not visible to anyone.

Dates, and what they mean

Pages carrying legal information show a “last updated”date generated from the change history of the page itself, not typed in by hand. We say “updated” rather than “reviewed” deliberately: it is a fact about when the content last changed. Claiming a page was “reviewed” on a date would assert that somebody re-checked the law that day, and we are not going to assert that unless it happened.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we change it and record what changed and when, rather than editing quietly. Recent examples, both from August 2026: two pages described Utah’s own free filing tools as costing money, when MyPaperwork is free and OCAP has been retired; and two pages cited the repealed Title 30 as current authority for annulment.

If you find an error, tell us at landon@divviutah.com. Corrections about the law get priority over everything else we are doing.

What divvi will not do

  • divvi is a document preparation service, not a law firm. It employs no attorneys, does not give legal advice, and does not represent anyone.
  • We do not invent statutes, statistics, or citations. If a number cannot be sourced, it does not appear.
  • We do not claim a competitor is worse than it is. Utah’s courts offer a free tool that is genuinely good for some people, and our comparison says so.
  • We do not recommend a process to someone it is not safe for. Where there is a history of domestic violence or coercive control, our assessments stop recommending and point to help instead.

Questions about this policy: landon@divviutah.com. See also our legal disclaimer and privacy policy.