About Legal DIY & Cost Estimator
Who runs this
Legal DIY & Cost Estimator is a Bedrocka Tools property, operated by Bedrocka Ventures LLC — an AI-native holding company based in Chicago. This site lives at legalmathpro.com and covers the legal-cost side of individual legal proceedings: child support estimation, lost-wages and present-value calculations for personal injury, contingency fee math, and settlement valuation — for individuals navigating family law and personal injury cases, as well as attorneys and paralegals using calculator outputs as preparation aids. Sister sites include bizmathpro.com, coveragecalc.pro, propertymathpro.com, and soloopfinance.com. Same primary-source doctrine, different surface.
I'm not your lawyer. These tools are for educational estimation, not legal advice. If you have a real legal matter, please consult a licensed attorney in your state.
The human behind it
Byron Malone is the founder and editor. He is an operator-author who runs the math transparently with citations — not a licensed attorney. Legal cost math is its own specialized niche: state child-support guidelines vary by income-shares, percentage-of-obligor, or Melson formula; personal injury settlement values turn on present-value discounting of future lost earnings; contingency fee caps differ by state and case type. Most public-facing legal information either oversimplifies this math or locks it behind a consultation. LegalMathPro exists to run the numbers in the open, with every formula traced to its source.
Bedrocka Tools is built natively on AI automation with documented human review at every step. Byron leads editorial direction on legal-cost content. For content covering settlement strategy, alimony calculations under post-TCJA IRC §71/§215, or business-valuation-for-divorce expert opinions, Bedrocka Tools commits to review by a credentialed subject-matter expert — a licensed attorney or certified financial litigator — before publication. The Day-1 calculators (child support, lost wages, contingency fee) are pure-math estimators that do not require licensed-attorney sign-off.
How we make money (and how we don't)
We make money two ways. Display ads, labeled “Advertisement” on every page, served through programmatic ad networks. Editorial affiliate partnerships, labeled “Editorial pick · Affiliate partner”, where we may earn a commission if you sign up with a partner we recommend — at no cost to you.
We never let revenue influence calculator logic or recommendations. The math is the math regardless of whether a sponsor wants it to look different. If a partner ever asks us to tune a calculator's output to favor their product, we end the partnership. See our affiliate disclosure for the full list of partners and FTC-compliant terms.
Why open source
Every calculator on this site is published as TypeScript on GitHub under MIT license. Every formula traces to a primary source — state child-support guideline statute, BLS Work-Life Table, IRC section, or ABA Model Rule. Every page has a real human reviewer with public accountability. Legal cost decisions are high-stakes and highly individual. We built Bedrocka Tools so claimants and attorneys can audit the math themselves instead of just trusting a black box. Read our editorial standards for the full process.
Contact
Questions, corrections, collaboration, math errors, accessibility issues — reach us at info@bedrockatools.com. We respond to every message within 3 business days.