Best Experience Tip: Many users explore this site on mobile first, then return later on a laptop or desktop for financial worksheets, binder building, and longer planning tools.
Step 2 — Organize Your Numbers

Divorce Calculators & Organizers

Before you can make good decisions, you need clear numbers. These tools help you see what you own, what you owe, what it costs to live, and how different choices may affect your financial stability.

The purpose of this step:
Step 2 is about organization, not pressure. Use these tools to gather your financial picture, prepare for your binder, and decide whether your next step should be DIY, AI guidance, coaching, mediation, or attorney review.
If the numbers feel overwhelming, pause.
You do not have to solve your entire divorce in one sitting. Start with one section, save your progress, and come back when you are ready. If you feel emotionally flooded or unable to think clearly, visit the PTSD & Trauma Recovery Hub before making major decisions.
Next Step: Build Your California Divorce Binder
Once you complete your calculators and organizers, pull everything together into a clear binder that keeps your forms, finances, parenting information, notes, and agreements organized in one place.
Want AI to Help Organize Your Divorce Information?
After you gather your financial, parenting, and settlement information, the AI Divorce Resolution Platform can help organize your position, compare options, and prepare a structured summary.

Your Progress

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1. Assets & Debts

Get a clear view of what you own and owe.

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2. Support & Budget Planner

Estimate whether possible income/support scenarios are survivable.

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3. Attorney Fees vs Mediation

Compare attorney-driven litigation costs with mediation/coaching-centered options.

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4. Stability Score

Check your financial, emotional, and practical readiness before major decisions.

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1. Assets & Debts Organizer

This is usually the best place to begin. Once you can see your assets and debts clearly, conversations about division, settlement, and mediation become more grounded.

What is community property?

In California, community property generally means assets and debts acquired during marriage. Separate property generally means property owned before marriage, inherited, or gifted to one spouse. This tool is educational only and does not decide legal characterization.

Assets

Description Category Ownership Type Estimated Value ($) Notes Remove

Debts

Description Debt Type Responsibility Balance Owed ($) Notes Remove

2. Support & Budget Planner

This tool helps you think through how income, housing costs, shared child expenses, debts, and an educational-only support estimate may affect monthly stability after separation.

Why this is educational only

Courts and attorneys use formal guideline tools and state-specific rules. This page does not calculate legal support. It helps you think through survivability, cash flow, and planning questions.

3. Attorney Fees vs Mediation Cost Comparison

Why compare legal fees early?

Legal fees can quietly consume savings, home equity, and retirement. This comparison helps you attach real numbers to the choice between prolonged conflict and structured resolution.

4. Post-Divorce Stability Score

How to use this score

This is not a diagnosis or legal readiness test. It is a reflection tool to help you decide where you may need more planning, support, or stabilization before making major moves.

Final Summary & Export

Use this summary as a starting point for your binder, AI Divorce Resolution, coaching, mediation, or attorney review.