Plan the financial, procedural, and local-resource pieces of a California divorce.

Enter only funds currently accessible to you for this planning scenario. Count each dollar once across savings, joint money, emergency funds, and investments. Enter the joint amount you can actually access, not the full account balance unless all of it is available. This does not determine legal ownership or permission to use funds.

Now let's estimate what your monthly life may look like on your own. Enter housing even if your housing plan is uncertain. Enter 0 for no housing cost; a blank means you have not supplied an amount.

One-time moving costs are not part of this monthly calculator. If you want to model one-time divorce-related expenses, use the Divorce Cost Planner.

Support amounts are user-entered only. This calculator does not calculate child support or spousal support.

A blank housing scenario tests $500 less housing cost, with a minimum of $0. A blank spending-reduction scenario requests $250 less flexible spending, capped at the flexible spending entered. Other monthly inputs remain unchanged. The spousal-support scenario keeps your entered child support.

Future receipts are excluded from baseline funds and runway. The optional comparison assumes the entire receipt were available now; it does not establish whether your current funds last until the money arrives.

Your report can include your current monthly picture, modeled post-divorce monthly picture, monthly change, savings runway, sourced county information, scenarios, and disclaimers. For now, use your browser print/save as PDF option.