Keep the Receipts: The Shared-Expense Ledger

For co-parents who split the kids’ expenses under an order

The dentist bill was in March. Can you show what you sent, and when?

A shared-expense ledger in Excel and Word, so you can log each expense the day it happens and know exactly what’s owed, by whom, and what’s past due.

Orthodontist. Soccer fees. The urgent care copay on a Saturday. Each one is small. Each one has a share, a receipt, and a window for getting reimbursed.

Six months later somebody asks what’s still owed, and the answer lives in a text thread, two banking apps and a drawer.

A number is an argument. A number with a ledger behind it is a record.

What each row captures

  • The expense: date of service, child, category, who paid at the point of sale, total, and your share.
  • The paper trail: the date you documented it, the reimbursement due date that follows from your order’s window, and the date it was actually paid.
  • The status: within the window, in the cure window, or past it.
  • The memo line: a Notes column to draft the payment memo some orders require (child, category, date of service), ready to copy.

What you get

The working spreadsheet (Excel)Enter your order’s reimbursement window, cure window and default share once. Amounts owed, due dates and status flags calculate automatically.
The print-friendly ledger (Word + PDF)The same columns as a printable grid, plus a running tally: owed to me, owed by me, the net, and entries past the cure window.

Excel + Word + PDF · Instant download · $19

This may fit if

  • Your order splits uninsured medical, activities, childcare or school costs
  • Reimbursements keep slipping, or keep turning into arguments
  • You want your own tally to reconcile against whatever system your order names

What this is not: legal or financial advice, a court record, a substitute for TalkingParents or any platform your order requires, or a calculation of support.

Keep the Receipts is an educational organizing tool. Created by a parent who navigated the family court system, sold by ValuED Sales LLC dba May Divorce Be With You.

⚠ Read before purchase

This is an educational record-keeping tool, not legal, financial, accounting or tax advice. The author is not an attorney, accountant or Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. Purchase does not create an attorney-client or any other professional relationship, and nothing shared with the seller is privileged. This ledger is your private working copy, not a court record and not a substitute for the communication or payment system your order names. Reimbursement windows, cure periods, categories and splits must come from your own order or your attorney; the examples are illustrations only.

Talk to a professional before relying on this at all if any of the following applies: domestic violence; an active protective order; a matter already in active litigation; hidden-asset or complex-finance concerns; or any disagreement about what your order requires.

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