Synopsis
You’re ready to leave—but you don’t have a paycheck, savings, or a clear starting point. This is the guide that meets you exactly where you are.
How to Get Divorced as a Stay-at-Home Parent is the compassionate, step-by-step roadmap designed specifically for full-time caregivers who want to end their marriage but feel financially stuck. Written by experts who have lived it and supported hundreds through it, this guide offers non-legal, real-world support—without shame or overwhelm.
Inside, you’ll find:
✔️ Budget-friendly ways to file for divorce (including how to apply for legal aid, fee waivers, and self-representation)
✔️ Scripts for tough conversations—from talking to your spouse, friends, and family, to explaining things to your kids
✔️ Emotional validation and self-care strategies for burnt-out parents who’ve done it all for everyone else
✔️ Checklists and worksheets for budgeting, gathering documents, tracking legal steps, and planning your next chapter
✔️ Meal planning and financial survival tools for when you’re parenting on $0
✔️ Free and low-cost support resources, including housing help, SNAP, and support groups
✔️ A post-divorce reset section for building a new life, finding income, and creating goals after the paperwork ends
This book is not legal advice—it’s a lifeline. If you’ve been up late Googling “how to get divorced with no income” or asking strangers in Facebook groups what to do next, this is your answer.
You don’t need money to reclaim your freedom.
You just need a plan—and this book is it.
About the Authors
Olivia Howell is the co-founder and CEO of Fresh Starts Registry, the first and only platform for everything you need to begin again, including divorce or breakup, moving, career changes, stepping into your truth, or starting again after grief. After her own divorce in 2019, Olivia had an 'aha moment' when she realized that we celebrate weddings and babies with a registry, but in the moments we really need to restock our life, like divorce, job loss, or any brave decision and major life change, we need the support, both in the form of support items for your home and the experts who become our hype team. From there, Fresh Starts Registry was born, the first Support Registry and Divorce Registry - the only platform aggregating support experts for all life changes and supporting the Fresh Starts Experts in their marketing, business, and public relations. Olivia currently lives in Huntington with her two amazing boys. In her spare time, she loves to watercolor, make handmade cards, read about generational trauma, listen to 90s music, and collect crystals. She's working on a romantic novel that has been in the works for far too long, and she hopes to eventually publish it before her children are too old to be totally embarrassed by it.
Genevieve "Jenny" Dreizen is the co-founder and COO of Fresh Starts Registry, the first and only platform for everything you need to begin again, including divorce or breakup, moving, career changes, stepping into your truth, or starting again after grief. On the heels of her sister Olivia's divorce, which prompted Olivia to have an 'aha moment' when she realized we needed to reframe the narrative around big life changes, and her own decade-long relationship ending Olivia and Jenny founded Fresh Starts as the first Support Registry and Divorce Registry to help remove the overwhelm of starting over following any big, bold life transition as well as assemble the hype team of experts to support them through it.Jenny is passionate about creating usable, efficient, and beautiful systems to run Fresh Starts to maintain their Experts, Support Specialists, and Freshies. When not planted in front of her multi-screen setup, Jenny might be found baking brownies, working on a poem or essay, or doing her favorite thing - going for a walk and buying herself a little treat
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