Quantum Cloud - Family Orders Guide

1. Accessing the Orders

Within Quantum you can draft your orders using the Standard Family Court Orders templates, and merge the data already entered from your case.

The orders are in the Tools section located in the top right of your screen beside your log in name.

Click the Tools dropdown and select Orders.

2. Creating an Order

Select the ‘Type of order’, e.g. (2) Financial Remedy Final Orders, followed by the order itself, e.g. Order 2.1 – Financial Remedy Order, and finally the Court (if one or more has been entered in Case information) ,all circled below.

If a case number has been entered in Case information for the selected court, it will be added automatically for you.

If you are creating a children’s order, please select the relevant CAFCASS for England or Wales. Once you have made your selections a preview of the order will appear to the left, along with a list of paragraphs for you to choose from on the right.

To ensure this information is pulled through to the preview of the Order, please click Update Order. This will update the preview of the order to reflect any changes you have made. You MUST do this in order to see your changes.

Quantum will have pre-selected mandatory paragraphs for that order - you will notice they have a grey tick and cannot be deselected. Select any additional paragraphs from the list by clicking the box to their left.

If you wish to preview any paragraph text click the blue book icon to the right.

3. Selecting all paragraphs

You can select all paragraphs by clicking on the Select all button.

4. Selecting mandatory paragraphs only

You can select the mandatory paragraphs only by clicking on the Select mandatory only

5. Expanding/collapsing all nodes

To expand or collapse the nodes, please use the Expand all or Collapse all buttons.

Alternatively, you can do this manually, by using the arrows to the right of each heading.

6. Comments from the Standard Family Orders Handbook Volumes 1 & 2 authors, plus drafting notes

Sometimes you will see a blue information icon. It looks like this.

Click on it to view comments from the Standard Family Orders Handbook Volumes 1 & 2 authors on the use of each order as well as practice points within the order, or the drafting notes contained within the official order.

Once you are happy with your selections, please click Update Order. This will update the preview of the order to reflect any changes you have made. You MUST do this in order to see your changes.

7. Downloading your order

Once you are happy with your selections, click on Download order and your draft order will be sent to your downloads folder as a Word document, where you can work on your order as required.

8. Finishing your order in Microsoft Word

Quantum will merge your case data with the selected order. It will include all mandatory text and exclude the paragraphs that are unchecked.

This newly created document will contain text in

and black. The text in

is the data which Quantum has merged automatically from your case data.

The text in

ink shows the paragraphs or clauses which will need your attention as you adapt the order for each specific case – red italics shows where you need to insert data.

The

ink are the drafting notes from the official order.

9. Enable editing

Depending upon your version of Microsoft Word and your settings, you may need to enable the editing of the document before you start. You will usually be alerted to this by a warning message at the top of Microsoft Word:

10. Making changes which are specific to the case

Concentrate on the red ink.

Start at the top and go through the document, changing the red ink as appropriate. As you go through it. You can check you’re happy with the blue merged text. Delete the green text once you’ve read them.

You can change the font colour once you have reviewed the text.

11. Saving your order

Be sure to save your document by selecting File/Save.