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What a divorce actually involves — the stages, roughly how long each takes, what it costs, how much the rules differ between states, and the things people find out too late. Built for the person who has not decided anything yet.
The first screen answers the two questions people actually arrive with, and shows the arithmetic behind each. Your state's statutory minimum is drawn separately from a planning estimate and cited to the section it came from, because one is law and the other is an assumption.
Court filing fees come from your state's published schedule. Attorney cost does not: nothing official publishes what lawyers charge, so instead of repeating a survey figure the app gives you the structure and you supply a rate you have been quoted.
Every state and the District of Columbia, with the same eight comparable facts each: residency, waiting period, any living-apart requirement, community property or equitable distribution, whether fault grounds survive, the filing fee, fee waivers, and what of a case is publicly visible. Each names the statute it was written from. Put two side by side and the rows that differ are marked.
Twenty-three watch-outs, each in four parts: what people assume, what is actually true, when the difference costs money, and what tends to prevent it. A divorce judgment does not bind your lender. The decree alone does not move money out of a 401(k). Health coverage can end the day it is signed. A beneficiary form outranks a will.
It asks five questions so the figures mean something and keeps the answers in the encrypted store on your device. They are never sent anywhere, under any setting. No account, no server, no advertising identifier, and nowhere in the app to type a name.
From version 1.1 the app reports its own faults: if it crashes or runs slowly it sends where the code failed, your iOS version and your device model. That one has no switch, so it is said here rather than buried. Separately, you can switch on a count of which pages get opened, which is off unless you turn it on. Neither carries anything you answered — the privacy policy sets out exactly what each one contains.
This app provides general legal information, not legal advice. It cannot tell you whether to end a marriage, predict what a court would decide, say what you are owed, or replace a licensed attorney or a court self-help centre. It points at legal aid, court self-help centres and volunteer attorneys throughout, and puts domestic violence resources on the first screen.