[
  {
    "metric": "Pending family matters",
    "lane": "Court pressure",
    "source": "Maine Judicial Branch annual report",
    "freshness_target": "Annual",
    "method": "Statewide pending family matters and pre-2019 comparison language",
    "limitation": "Shows pressure trend; does not identify fault in any case"
  },
  {
    "metric": "Court capacity / workload need",
    "lane": "Court capacity",
    "source": "Maine workload assessment",
    "freshness_target": "When study updates",
    "method": "Judicial officer and clerk need versus authorized capacity",
    "limitation": "Shows capacity gap; does not decide which reform fixes it"
  },
  {
    "metric": "Regional family and eviction filings",
    "lane": "Regional pressure",
    "source": "Regional court caseload reports",
    "freshness_target": "Annual/FY",
    "method": "Family filings and forcible-entry filings by court/region where available",
    "limitation": "Shows overlap of pressure; not a causation claim"
  },
  {
    "metric": "Housing availability and strain",
    "lane": "Family stability",
    "source": "MaineHousing and related public reports",
    "freshness_target": "Annual/periodic",
    "method": "Vacancy, affordability, and housing-support context",
    "limitation": "Shows stability pressure; not a custody-specific conclusion"
  },
  {
    "metric": "Official doors and forms",
    "lane": "Access-to-help",
    "source": "Maine Judicial Branch, DHHS/OCFS, child support, legal aid, 211",
    "freshness_target": "Monthly freshness check target",
    "method": "Routes people to current official sources",
    "limitation": "Does not replace official forms or legal help"
  },
  {
    "metric": "Success measures",
    "lane": "Reform accountability",
    "source": "Future public reporting/RFC",
    "freshness_target": "To be defined",
    "method": "Time-to-resolution, continuances, child-time disruption, aid capacity, safe resolution routes",
    "limitation": "A target dashboard, not yet a complete public dataset"
  }
]