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.

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

Family Law from Lexis-Nexis - A family law attorney or a family law lawyer specializes in the family law relationships which encompass adoption, child custody, visitation rights, domestic violence, divorce, juvenile dependency and delinquency, marital property rights, support obligations, and paternity.

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. The site is trying to sell books, cds and workshops, but you can read and learn without purchasing anything.

Marriage Counseling: Working through Relationship Problems - The Mayo Clinic offers this information.

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

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.