Recommended Web Sites

Credit and Divorce - Valuable information on how divorce affects your credit rating, from the Federal Trade Commission.

Divorce: Helping Your Child Through the Breakup - The Mayo Clinic offers this advice.

A Kid's Guide to Divorce - This site is created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media and provides information about divorce that is suitable for kids.

ABA Network - Laws on Divorce - The American Bar Association provides six tables summarizing the laws in all states on the following topics: alimony/spousal support, custody criteria, child support guidelines, grounds for divorce and residency requirements, property division, and third-party visitation.

Dealing With Divorce - Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, teens may find this site helpful when dealing with a divorce.

Divorce Care - Locate a support group or seminar to help you cope with divorce issues, the site also contains interesting information and a bookstore.

Divorce - Legal Information from the Cornell Legal Information Institute - Excellent resource for laws defining divorce issues in the different states.

Divorce Statistics - Statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics.

Divorce: Talking About Fears and Concerns - The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these tips.

DivorceNet - Another commercial site full of useful information on all aspects of divorce.

Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement - Contains government information (both federal and state) on child support and related matters, also contains some publications in Spanish.

How to Divorce as Friends - A site where you can learn how to end conflict, heal hurt, resolve issues and if necessary, part as friends.

MedlinePlus: Divorce - The librarians at the National Library of Medicine have assembled these links to quality sites on the Internet.

StepFamily Information - Information on stepfamilies, new relationships and extended family groups, from the Stepfamily Association of Illinois.

Their House:My House, Raising Your Child in Two Different Homes - Learn what to say and do to help your child through this time.

Tips for Divorcing Parents - KidsHealth has written this information specifically for parents.

Visitation Dos and Don'ts - Iowa State has created this useful information sheet.

When Your Parents Fight - KidsHealth wrote this section to help children cope with parents who don't always get along.