AI Search Visibility for Family Law Firms · SEO / AEO / GEO
Your next client just asked ChatGPT who the best divorce lawyer is. Were you the answer?
Forever Cited measures how often ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity name your firm for family law and divorce cases in your market — then builds the cited authority those engines draw on. Measured weekly. Proven against a baseline. One firm per practice area, per market.
Free · Two minutes to request · No sales call before you see your numbers
- ✓Your 0–100 score
- ✓The actual AI answers, named
- ✓Your three biggest gaps
- ✓Whether your market is still open
“Who is the best divorce lawyer near me for a high net worth custody case?”
Every signal that put those three in the answer can be built. None of it is luck.
This is where someone facing a divorce chooses now. Two or three names. Everyone else doesn’t exist.
The problem
Your next client is searching at 11 p.m. AI is the one answering.
You built this practice on discretion and results. But the person going through a divorce right now doesn’t ask a friend at 11 p.m. — they ask ChatGPT, Google, or Perplexity who the best family law attorney is near them. The answer names two or three firms, and if you aren’t one of them, you never know the call existed.
Search didn’t die. It moved above the results. AI answers now sit on top of every page Google shows, and someone in crisis reads the first plain answer they get. If your firm isn’t in it, the case goes to whoever is — and you never even know it was in play.
45%
of consumers used AI tools like ChatGPT to find a local business in the past year — up from 6% the year before.
BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026
1.2%
of those businesses is all ChatGPT recommends. The answer is two or three names, and the rest are invisible.
SOCi, Visibility Index, 2026
41.9%
of U.S. adults would use ChatGPT to research who to hire for a serious legal matter — up from 28.1% in one year.
iLawyer Marketing, 2026
Be the firm AI names when the next client asks. Measured every week. Proven against a baseline you can check.
That is the whole offer. Everything below is how we do it for your practice area, and what we will never do.
What we measure
The questions people facing a divorce ask AI — and that we measure for your firm
These are the prompts your audit runs, in your market, on all five engines. They are the questions people type at midnight, mid-crisis, deciding who to call. Your score is how often your firm is in the answer.
- best divorce lawyer near me for high net worth custody
- family law attorney contested custody [city]
- how much does a divorce lawyer cost in [state]
- mediator vs divorce attorney
- top-rated family law firm reviews [city]
- divorce attorney near me who handles complex property division
- do i need a lawyer for an uncontested divorce
- child custody lawyer near me available this week
Your audit uses your market’s version of these. The weekly run re-asks every one, on every engine, and shows you the answers.
Which of these name your firm today? The free audit runs every one in your market and shows you the answers, word for word.
See my AI answers — freeGuardrails built in
Written to your bar’s rules — and to the person reading them in crisis.
ABA Model Rules 7.1 and 7.4, plus your state’s additions. Every piece we publish for you is written to Rule 7.1 (no false or misleading communication) and Rule 7.4 (no specialization claim without the certifying body named) — plus your state’s limits on soliciting people in emotional distress. You approve every word before it goes live. The discretion your clients need going through a divorce is the same discretion we build into every piece we publish.
What we will never publish for you:
- ✕Promise a guaranteed custody outcome
- ✕Call you the “#1 divorce lawyer”
- ✕Publish an outcome testimonial without the disclaimer your state requires
The record AI checks
The directories AI checks before it names a family law firm
When an engine decides whether you are who your site says you are, it reads these first. We claim, correct, and verify every one — same name, same practice area, same office, everywhere.
Is your record consistent on every one of these? One mismatch is enough to drop you from the answer. The audit checks each profile against your site.
Check my record — freeMethod
How your firm becomes the answer
No jargon, no black box. Three moves, run every week, with the evidence in your inbox.
01Measure
Know exactly where you stand
We score your firm 0–100 across the questions someone facing a divorce actually asks in your market — on ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, plus classic search, directories, and reviews. That score is frozen as your baseline. Everything after gets proven against it.
02Build
Publish the authority AI cites
AI engines cite family law attorneys who explain custody, support, and process plainly. We draft that authority for you — what mediation costs, how contested custody actually works, what to expect in the first consultation — carrying the disclaimers your bar requires. You approve every word before anything goes live. Directories, entities, and reviews get fixed alongside it.
03Prove
See your name appear
Every week: the same prompts, re-asked. The actual answers, side by side with your baseline. Which engines name you now that didn’t. What moved, what’s next. If a number didn’t move, you’ll see that too — measured honestly or not at all. How we score.
The engagement
One engagement. Everything handled.
This is done-for-you. Your total time commitment is approving content and reading a five-minute weekly report.
Pricing is shared in your audit readout.
Month-to-month. One firm per practice area, per market — when your market is taken, it’s taken.
Check if your market is open — free auditRisk, reversed
Built so hiring us is the low-risk move
◆Month-to-month
No annual contract. The weekly proof keeps the relationship, not a signature.
◎Market exclusivity
We will never work for a competing firm in your practice area and market. In writing. Check if your market is open →
✓Your bar rules, respected
Nothing publishes without your approval. Every piece carries required disclaimers. Review requests are email-only, never gated.
⊞Your confidences, untouched
We never access case files, matter data, or client records. Your Rule 1.6 obligations stay exactly where they belong: with you.
⌂You own everything
Every article, page, and profile we build belongs to your firm. Leave anytime; it all stays yours.
!No fake promises
Nobody can guarantee what AI will say. Anyone who does is lying to you. We guarantee measurement, transparency, and work you can verify.
Questions
Questions family law attorneys actually ask
My clients are already in crisis. How does AI change anything for them?
They still search first — usually alone, at night, before they call anyone. When they type “best divorce lawyer near me,” the answer names two or three firms. If yours isn’t one of them, a person who needed a calm, capable attorney found someone else instead, and you never knew the search happened.
Is soliciting people going through a divorce even allowed?
Direct solicitation of people in known distress is restricted in most states, and we never do it. What we build is different: plain, published answers about custody, support, and process that AI engines cite when someone searches on their own. You’re found, not approached — the distinction your bar cares about.
I get most of my cases from referrals. Why does this matter?
Because the person your referral told to call you still checks first. They ask ChatGPT who the best family law attorney is before dialing. When the answer names three other firms and not you, a warm referral goes cold. Visibility doesn’t replace referrals — it keeps them from leaking.
How long until AI starts naming my firm?
Directory and technical fixes usually move numbers inside 30 days. Content authority that changes which firms AI cites for custody and divorce typically compounds over 60–90 days. You see the evidence weekly from day one, including what hasn’t moved yet.
We already pay an SEO agency. Isn’t this the same thing?
Ask them which AI engines named your firm last week, for which prompts. Most can’t answer — they optimize for a results page fewer people scroll to. We measure the actual answers people in crisis are shown, on all five engines, and traditional SEO is included, not ignored.
What does an engagement cost?
We share exact pricing in your audit readout, after we’ve seen your market and scope. What you should know now: it’s a done-for-you engagement with market exclusivity — we turn away every competing family law firm in your market — billed month-to-month with no long-term contract.
What do I get in the free audit — and what’s the catch?
Your 0–100 score, the real prompts people facing a divorce use in your market, the actual AI answers showing who gets named, and your three biggest gaps — delivered in a 30-minute readout. The catch: we take one firm per practice area per market, so the audit also decides fit, on both sides.
The free audit
Find out what AI says when the next person searching for a divorce lawyer asks.
What you get, free, in a 30-minute readout. One audit per firm.
Free. No credit card, no contract, no pitch before you see the numbers. If the audit shows you are already the answer, we will tell you so.