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What a De Kind report is

De Kind is a record two separated parents keep together: when each parent had the children, what was spent on them, and what one parent asked of the other and how it was answered. A report is that record, for a date range one of the parents chose, set out as a PDF.

Both parents see every entry as it is made. A request's outcome cannot be changed once it is settled, and logged entries can be corrected only once, shortly after they are made. Nothing is deleted: a removed entry is marked as removed, not erased.

What it contains

Parties: the two parents (as Parent A and Parent B) and the children's first names.
Custody summary: for each parent, the number of days, nights and full days logged in the period, and a weighted total in days.
Request log: every request in the period, with the date it was sent, its type, who sent it, how many days ahead of the date it concerns it was sent, its description, its outcome, when it was resolved, and any reason given for a decline.
Cost log: each cost with its date, category, description, which parent logged it, and the amount, with a combined total for the period.
Document ID: printed on every page, for checking the file (see section 5).

Where something was not stated — a request with no date, a decline with no reason — the report shows a dash. A blank is never turned into a zero or a default.

What it deliberately leaves out

Messages. De Kind has no chat or messaging between parents. A request is a short, structured ask with an outcome, not a conversation.
Recordings and location. No recorded calls, voice notes or GPS. Location data is stripped from uploaded receipt photos.
Who owes whom. The report shows what each parent logged. It does not calculate a balance or settlement, because that depends on an arrangement the record has no basis to assume.
Judgements. No ratings, scores, averages or labels about either parent — no “late”, “short notice” or “reliability”. Intervals, timestamps, amounts and stated reasons only.

The principle: everything in the record is either self-evident or acknowledged by the other parent. Nothing one parent asserts about the other enters it unopposed.

Why short is deliberate

Family proceedings are meant to be proportionate. The overriding objective of the Family Procedure Rules includes “dealing with the case in ways which are proportionate to the nature, importance and complexity of the issues” (FPR rule 1.1(2)(b)).

Court bundles are limited too. Under Practice Direction 27A, “an e-bundle may only be up to 350 pages” without the court's permission (para 11.2(b)), and a bundle should contain “only those documents which are relevant to the hearing and which it is necessary for the court to read”. Among the classes that “must not be included in the bundle unless the court directs otherwise” are “copies of emails, text messages, WhatsApp messages or any form of social media communications” and “voice notes or other recordings” — although specific documents the court needs to read may still be included (para 5.2) (PD27A, version in force from 2 March 2026).

A De Kind report is built for that setting: the facts that were logged and agreed, for the period asked about, in a few pages rather than an export of every interaction.

Checking a report is genuine

Every PDF report carries a document ID in its footer, such as DK-7F3K-92QD. When the file is issued, De Kind records a fingerprint (SHA-256) of its exact bytes against that ID.

To check a copy, open dekind.app/verify and choose the file. The check runs on your device and sends only the fingerprint. It tells you whether the file is exactly the one De Kind issued, and when; whether the document ID is genuine but the file has since been changed; or that there is no match.

Re-saving, editing or “printing to PDF” produces a new file. If a copy does not verify, ask for the original download.

What De Kind does not claim

We make no claim that any court, adviser or party will accept a De Kind report as evidence. That is for the rules of the proceedings and the tribunal.
A report reflects what the parents logged in De Kind. It is not an account of everything that happened.
We are not lawyers, mediators or family court officials, and nothing in a report is legal advice.