For women in California
Half of what he built during your marriage is already yours.
Know exactly what that is before you make your next move.
Most women never claim it correctly — especially his retirement, the biggest and least-understood piece. The Divorce Guide USA Toolkit gets everything that matters organized and protected before your first paid attorney hour.
Instant access · 30-day satisfaction guarantee · Private by design
- Community property, totalled as you type
- The QDRO step almost everyone forgets
- An attorney-ready one-page export
Built for California
Community property, date of separation, FL-142 / FL-150 disclosures.
Private by design
Encrypted, stored to your account alone. Never shared, never sold.
30-day satisfaction guarantee
Use all of it. If it doesn't leave you more in control, email us within 30 days and we'll make it right.
Plain English
No jargon, no forms to decode — written to be understood once.
What most people miss
What California already says is yours
California is a community-property state. The income, property, and savings the two of you built during the marriage are generally owned 50/50 — no matter whose name is on the account. That includes the one almost everyone underestimates: his retirement. The portion of his 401(k), pension, or CalPERS account that grew during the marriage is community property, and half of that is legally yours.
Being owed it isn't the same as getting it. To move a share of a 401(k) or pension to you without triggering taxes and a 10% penalty, the court has to sign a special order — a QDRO. And here's what costs women the most: people finalize the divorce, feel relieved it's over… and never file it. The share they were owed just sits there, unclaimed, for years.
California also makes both spouses disclose everything — assets, debts, income, expenses — early, and it's the single most common reason final judgments get rejected when it's done wrong. Most people scramble through it at the last minute, under pressure, paying by the hour.
And that meter isn't cheap. California divorce attorneys commonly bill $300–$500 an hour — the same rate whether they're giving you real advice or waiting while you hunt for last year's tax return.
None of this means anything's gone wrong. It usually just means one person was closer to the money for years. The fix isn't to argue — it's to get everything into one place before the first meeting that counts.
You could build all of this yourself
The community-property list, every retirement account with the QDRO reminder, your real monthly number, the document checklist, the questions to ask. It's a real piece of admin, scattered across notebooks, statements, and your inbox — and every hour you spend disorganized in front of an attorney is $300–$500 you didn't need to spend.
The Divorce Guide USA Toolkit is all of it, already built for you — private, on your phone, yours to keep.
Everything included
What's inside
- 1
Know exactly what you're owed before you negotiate
Community Property Inventory
List every asset and debt; it totals your community estate as you type, so you can see what's actually on the table.
- 2
Don't walk away from his retirement by accident
Retirement & QDRO Tracker
Every plan, his and yours, with the order type each one needs and a status checklist that ends on the step almost everyone misses: is the QDRO actually filed? This is the one that protects the biggest number.
- 3
Walk into support talks with a real number, not a guess
Income & Expense Worksheet
Your real monthly need, calculated — the honest figure support conversations turn on.
- 4
Never be the one scrambling for paperwork
California Document Checklist
The exact disclosure package, with a progress bar, so nothing's a surprise at the last minute.
- 5
Protect the dates that decide what's yours
Key Dates & Timeline
Marriage, separation, filing — including why the date of separation matters for what counts as community property.
- 6
Get answers in your consult instead of paying for small talk
Attorney / Mediator Question Bank
The right questions, grouped by topic, with space for answers — so a consult isn't spent on things you could've written down.
- 7
Always know what happens next — and where you are in it
California Process Roadmap
The stages, plain-English, with a “where I am” tracker.
- 8
Hand your attorney one page instead of a shoebox
One-page “bring this to your attorney” export
A clean PDF pulling your totals, retirement list, and gathered documents together. Walk in organized instead of paying to get there.
Included bonus
Bonus — “Before you agree to anything” mini-guide
How not to settle before everything's disclosed and the retirement is valued.
A look inside
This is what organized looks like
One private dashboard on your phone or laptop — your totals, your accounts, your documents, your dates. Everything in one place, updated as you go.
Illustrative preview — figures shown are examples, not real data.
What you get, and what it's worth
- Community Property Inventory
- $300
- Retirement & QDRO Tracker
- $400
- Income & Expense Worksheet
- $200
- California Document Checklist
- $150
- Key Dates & Timeline
- $150
- Attorney / Mediator Question Bank
- $200
- California Process Roadmap
- $150
- One-page “bring this to your attorney” export
- $300
- Bonus — “Before you agree to anything” mini-guide
- $100
- Total value
- $1,950
Your price today is less than ten minutes of a California divorce attorney's time — and it's yours to keep.
$1,950 of value — today, one time:
One-time payment. No subscription, ever.
- All 8 modules + the bonus mini-guide
- Attorney-ready PDF export
- 30-day satisfaction guarantee
- Private, encrypted, yours to keep
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Why you can trust this
Backed by our 30-day satisfaction guarantee.
Use every module. Fill in your numbers. Run the export. If it doesn't leave you more organized and more in control than you are today, email help.divorceguide@gmail.com within 30 days and we'll work with you to make it right.
Private by design
Your information is encrypted and stored to your account alone. Never shared, never sold — not to anyone, and not to your spouse. You can delete everything at any time.
Built for California
Every module maps to California's actual process and disclosure categories — community property, the date-of-separation rule, the QDRO trap, the FL-142/FL-150 disclosure set.
Founder note — to be filled in before launch
Add a real founder name and 2–3 true lines on why this was built, plus any genuine testimonials. Nothing has been written here, because every claim on this page has to be literally true.
Is this legal advice? No — here's exactly what it is
This is educational preparation material and a private organizer. It teaches how California's process works in general and helps you gather and structure your own information. It does not give advice about your specific situation, and it does not fill out or file your court forms — that's for you and a licensed California attorney. For the official process and forms, see courts.ca.gov and selfhelp.courts.ca.gov, and for advice specific to you, a licensed California attorney or your county's Family Law Facilitator.
What it does do: get you organized, in plain English, before you start paying by the hour — so every attorney hour is spent on advice, not admin.
Divorce Guide USA is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. This is general educational information about California and is not a substitute for advice from a licensed California attorney about your situation.
Everything above, already built.
$1,950 of preparation, organized in one private place, for a one-time $47.
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