Divorce & Separation Tools

Work out which way through fits your situation, get your numbers straight, and walk into any lawyer’s office — or skip the ones you do not need — prepared. Everything runs in your browser, and none of these pages loads advertising, analytics or any other third-party script.

These tools help you prepare. They do not give legal advice. They do not file anything with a court, apply the law where you live, calculate support, or make any agreement binding.

Written for anywhere, with United States help links. Divorce rules differ between countries and between states, so nothing here changes with where you live. The help organisations listed are in the United States; elsewhere, your local court and family-law services are the place to start.

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Divorce Path Planner

A few questions — safety first — and a suggested path: doing it yourselves, mediation, collaborative divorce, lawyer negotiation or court. Then a step-by-step plan, and the moments a lawyer is actually worth paying for.

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Five ways through a divorce

From least to most involved. Cost, time and control are relative to each other — what any of them costs depends on where you live and how much you disagree about.

Get your numbers straight

Each works on its own. Prepared numbers make mediation shorter and legal bills smaller, whichever path you take.

Divorce Path PlannerSafety first, then the path that fits your situation, a step-by-step plan, and when a lawyer is worth paying for.Find your path Parenting ScheduleCompare 2-2-3, alternating weeks and more by nights, handovers and the longest time away from each parent.Compare schedules Property & Debt DivisionWho takes what, what is left out, and the one payment that reaches the split you are discussing.Divide it up Two-Household BudgetWhat each home has left each month, and what a payment between them would change.Build the budget

What happens to what you type

Nothing is kept. These tools have no “save on this device” option at all, unlike the estate worksheets. What you type stays in the open tab and is gone when you close it. That is deliberate: the person planning to leave a marriage is sometimes sharing a device with the person they are leaving.

If you want to keep your work, you download it on purpose — a printed plan, a text file, or the planner’s progress file. Those files hold what you entered in plain text, so keep them somewhere private.

Every divorce page has a Quick exit button, and pressing Escape twice does the same. It leaves at once for an ordinary website and replaces this page in your history, but no website can erase your browser history for you. A private browsing window leaves less behind.

What none of these tools will do

File anything with a court, or make an agreement binding.
Tell you what the law where you live says, or what you are entitled to.
Calculate child support or spousal support — those follow rules and formulas set where you live.
Tell you whether a marriage should end.
Save anything you type, anywhere.
Ask for account numbers, passwords or identity numbers.

A plan is not a settlement. What these do is make every conversation — with your spouse, a mediator or a lawyer — shorter, better prepared and cheaper.