"Divorce Apps" Now Available Via Online App Stores

The largely unpleasant process of divorce typically requires some personal navigation through emotional, legal, and financial waters trickier than Mark Twain's Mississippi River. Well, now some bright developers have created apps to help those contemplating marital dissolution work out some of the details.

According to a story in today's online edition of the Chicago Tribune, the apps don't replace an attorney's legal skills. Some apps provide crude calculations of financial value. Others target child support payments. None of the apps noted in the article determine the psychological pain or the emotional loss often associated with divorce. It's still hard to quantify heartbreak.