Divorce can be the most challenging time of your life. If you are going through a divorce, you may be dealing with many difficulties relating to the causes of the divorce or the effects of your divorce proceedings. If you are divorcing your partner with which you have children, you may have a difficult time arranging schedules for child custody or visitation.

Like many people today, you likely use smart phone applications to distract you from the stresses of your divorce. While you are scrolling through Facebook or playing the newest version of Candy Crush, did you ever consider how a smart phone application could actually help you organize your life during divorce rather than distract you from it? Actually, there are many mobile applications available today that can help you through these difficult times.

(1) Kidganizer

Managing your divorce or separation while maintaining your kids’ busy schedules can be difficult. The Kidganizer application can help you manage your child(ren)’s schedules and expenses. The app has synchronization technology, which means that when you add a visitation or custody date to your calendar, the other parent will be able to see the date. This can come in handy since communication between former spouses is a difficult task to manage. This can help you avoid the uncomfortable calls, text messages, or emails. Former spouses can manage their child(ren)’s schedules without having to communicate directly with one another.

The expense tracker is also a great tool that can help you manage your child support payments and track the total parenting expenses. The app even allows you to take photos of and archive receipts. The synchronization capabilities allow you to share these with your former spouse quickly and easily.

The Family tab allows you to create profiles for your kids and invite other members of your or your former spouse’s family to view the app.

The application also sends out alerts and notifications of upcoming events. This application is a must have, if you ask us.

(2) Parenting Apart

It’s important for divorced or separated parents to maintain balanced and healthy relationships with their childr(ren). Parenting Apart can help make this possible. The app focuses on the ideology that it’s information sharing and support are crucial for families. The creator of the app, Christina McGhee gives personal advice that is useful and inspiring. As a child from a divorced family, McGhee is very knowledgeable when it comes to advising separated and divorced parents as to how they can improve relations with their child(ren). This app can help advise you on important questions you may not know how to answer for your kids.

(3) Simplify Your Shared Custody Arrangement with Our Family Wizard

Our Family Wizard is a program that can help divorcing parents organize their lives and manage their divorce. Subscriptions to this website costs about $99 a year, but there are special promotions for parents who co-subscribe. This organized and interactive application is equipped with features to help you reduce the stress involved with your divorce and increase the amount of quality time you can spend with your children. Features include:

• A family calendar
• Message board
• Expense log
• Journal
• Information log

My Family Wizard can help you increase communication with your former spouse in a civil way and can maximize the time you are able to spend with your child(ren)!

(4) Divorce Log App

This app can help you manage your child custody arrangement. Not only does it allow you to keep important information regarding your custody situation in one place, it offers a quick and easy way to keep track of incoming and outgoing child support and spousal support payments. The app is easy to access while maintaining security. Additionally, the app may be connected to an email account to which it sends all pertinent information regarding your case that you may then share with your attorney.

(5) Memory Bank

Whether you’re going through a difficult divorce or just deciding to separate with your spouse, you may want to preserve all information of pertinent events in a secure place. This application can give you the means to do that. Memory Bank is a digitized journal, of sorts, that can help you record pertinent information relating to your divorce or separation.

The app is equipped with recording capabilities. This allows you to record events and activities by photo, video, audio or text. The recordings are stored in one easy to access application and can be shared with the push of a button. This feature is useful for parents who wish to share records of certain events with attorneys, psychologists or child support service agencies. Please be aware, however, that you should always let people know if you are recording events in their presence.

(6) Track Your Income and Expenses with Mint

One of the hardest things about going through a divorce is getting used to a different financial arrangement. You may be accustomed to sharing financial obligations and accounts with your former spouse. This application can help you become reacquainted with solo budgeting. The app is equipped with features that allow you to see all of your financial accounts in one place. The bill reminders and alerts are sure to come in handy to those dealing with a busy schedule when trying to balance work and family life.

(7) My Thought Coach

It’s easy to get caught up with other things during a divorce or separation. People often forget to take care of their own emotional needs during these difficult times. My Thought Coach can help. This innovative application can help you focus on YOU. With new meditation exercises on the app every month, you will be able to manage stress caused by your difficult divorce.

(8) iSplit Divorce

Possibly the most difficult aspect of getting a divorce, other than figuring out how to co-parent your child(ren), is dividing up the marital assets. The iSplit Divorce App can help make this process a little bit easier. The app helps ex -partners divide up expensive assets such as cars and houses. The app helps users track the value of the assets and keeps a running total of how much each party has gotten in the split. One of the most useful tools about this app is the fact that you can export the information from it onto a spreadsheet that you can then share with your attorneys, mediators and financial advisors.

Call Wallin & Klarich Today

At Wallin & Klarich, we understand how difficult it can be to transition from marriage to divorce or separation. You may not be aware of all of the different resources you can utilize to make the transition easier for yourself and for your child(ren). While smartphone applications can help make the process a bit easier for you, they can never be a substitute for the guidance of an attorney. For these reasons, it is crucial that you seek the assistance of an experienced family law attorney immediately. Our knowledgeable attorneys at Wallin & Klarich have over 30 years of experience successfully helping our clients through divorce and child custody issues. Let us help you today.

With offices located in Orange County, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Torrance, Riverside, West Covina, Victorville, Ventura, San Diego and Sherman Oaks, our knowledgeable attorneys are available to help you no matter where you are located.

Call us today at (888) 749-7428 for a free phone consultation. We will get through this together.