If your divorce is inescapable and nothing seems to be working then you and your spouse has to planning, that is an inherent part of every divorce.
A divorce financial plan is a necessary means for divorcing couples when they choose to go their separate ways. The main change in each couples` financial circumstances is faced by separating or divorcing couples. The principal one is that two spouses have to survive with the same money formerly supporting one.
The first step
When you are going to file for divorce
1. Find a good divorce lawyer
2. Begin to write your divorce financial plan. It will be some kind of a written report that can show your running status, your aims. You may include lifestyle aims, tuition aims and retirement ones. It will show you the way to get from where you are now, to where you want to be.
3. Should gather financial documents such as tax forms, benefits statements, bank statements, investment statements, retirement plan statements, wills, trusts, pre-nuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, insurance policies, credit card statements, tax returns, real estate purchase documents, sale documents, and any other document belonging to your individual assets. 
4. Keep a cool head. Avoid controversies with your spouse and plan pre-divorce meetings in a neutral situation
5. Do not discuss about your divorce with your children and family.
The second step
You are filing for divorce
1. File for divorce. And then your lawyer will file a petition, financial statements and other documents with the court that will need. Thanks to it the legal divorce process will begin.
2. This period of divorce is very stressful and strained. Try to control time and you will have a set relaxation period daily
3. Pay additional attention to your needs and to your children
4. Go on working on your written financial plan. Do not forget to include such key elements to it as budgeting, tax planning, retirement planning, tuition planning and estate document planning.
5. Work with your lawyer on intervening or negotiated settlements – or submit a plan.
6. Be more realistic and make plans and set aims for your finances after the divorce.
The third step
After the divorce
1. Keep careful records of your financial separation
2. Try to plan your future, of course.
3. Get counseling for any left-over feelings of anger/bitterness
4. Detach your emotional divorce from your financial divorce. And don’t nonplus child care and visitation with money issues
5. Close all combined credit cards and bank accounts
6. Do not lose copies of any support checks you have paid or received
7. Try to make a new financial plan for the next year
8. Make arrangements to payoff any combined bills left over from your marriage
9. Start to save your money
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