About divorcesettlementcalc.com
divorcesettlementcalc.com is a free family-law resource maintained by The Click Lab. Our calculator and guides help separating spouses understand how marital property gets divided and what a realistic settlement range looks like before they've spoken with an attorney — covering community property and equitable distribution, spousal support, and the practical steps that protect your financial position during a divorce. The Site is built for people early in the process who want a plain-English starting point — not a substitute for legal advice.
What we do
We translate family-law and financial concepts into plain-English calculators and guides. Divorce settlement touches several bodies of law at once — property division, support law, tax law, and retirement-plan rules — that most people encounter for the first time under real time pressure. Every page is reviewed by our editorial team with citations to state statutes and reported case law. The calculator applies the community-property 50/50 presumption or an equitable-distribution adjustment depending on your state, then layers in a spousal-support estimate based on income disparity and marriage length — the factors that most consistently move a real settlement away from a simple even split.
Who this calculator is for
Most visitors fall into one of a few groups: people considering or going through a divorce who want to understand roughly what's at stake before they talk to a lawyer; self-represented (pro se) litigants preparing for mediation or a hearing who need a sanity check on a proposed number; and family-law paraprofessionals — mediators, paralegals, financial advisors working with divorcing clients — who want a quick reference point before pulling the state-specific statute. We built the Site around these use cases, which is why every guide leads with a plain-English answer before it gets into statutory or procedural detail.
How the estimate is built
The full mechanics — the net marital estate calculation, the community-property and equitable-distribution formulas, and the spousal-support estimate — are documented on our methodology page, including worked examples. At a high level: the calculator nets your marital assets against marital debt, applies a 50/50 split in community-property states or an income- and duration-adjusted split in equitable-distribution states, and estimates spousal support from the income gap between spouses and the length of the marriage. Classifying which assets are actually marital versus separate, tracing commingled funds, and valuing a business or pension requires an attorney who has seen the real financial picture.
What we don't do
We don't provide legal advice, and nothing on this Site creates an attorney-client relationship. Divorce settlements depend heavily on the specific facts of a marriage, the judge or mediator involved, and state law that varies widely — variables no calculator can fully account for. We also don't evaluate individual cases, review specific settlement offers, or recommend particular attorneys or mediators. For your specific situation, consult a licensed family-law attorney in your state; see our contact page for guidance on finding one.
Editorial standards
Every guide and reference page is written from primary sources — state family codes, appellate decisions, and state judicial-council guidelines — and reviewed before publication. We don't publish thin content: each page is meant to answer a specific question a divorcing spouse would actually ask, with enough detail to be useful during a genuinely stressful process. Our full editorial workflow and sourcing policy are on the editorial team page.
How we make money
Display advertising via Google AdSense funds our editorial content, and we don't accept paid placements or favorable mentions in our guides — no attorney, mediator, or divorce-finance company pays to influence what we write. Separately, the Site offers an optional case-review form: if you submit it, your name, phone, email, and case details are shared with attorneys who may compensate The Click Lab Agency LLC for the referral. That's a disclosed advertising product, not an editorial endorsement, and using it is always optional. See our privacy policy for details on data handling and what's shared if you use the form.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or feedback: see our contact page.