The Divorce System Is Broken.
We Rebuilt It.
Meet Divorce Architecture.
A New Category of Divorce Resolution.
A corporate-grade operating model that treats your divorce like a business divestiture—not a legal battle.
30-Day Resolution Framework • Defined Total Project Budget • Clear Path to Resolution • You Stay in Control
What Is Divorce Architecture?
We Didn’t Improve the Existing Divorce Model. We Started Over.
Traditional divorce offers different procedures inside the same legacy system. Divorce Architecture changes the operating model itself.
Both parties work through one integrated, corporate-grade process designed to build the resolution before legal finalization begins.
We treat divorce like a business divestiture—bringing the facts together, modeling alternatives, pressure-testing tradeoffs and working through the decisions.
Technology organizes the complexity. Corporate strategy and human expertise drive the resolution.
See the Whole Divorce
One divorce. One decision environment.
Our proprietary technology stack brings together finances, property, retirement, debt, parenting, business interests where relevant, and the realities of two future households.
One picture. One system. No blind spots.
How Divorce Architecture Works
Engineer the Resolution
Technology organizes the complexity. Human expertise drives the resolution.
More than 25 years of corporate-strategy experience is applied to the scenarios, tradeoffs, priorities, sequencing and difficult decisions required to move from complexity to resolution.
Data informs. Judgment decides.
Reach the Resolution Together
This is where the divorce gets solved.
Both parties work through the interconnected decisions—testing what works, resolving tradeoffs and building a resolution they can actually execute.
This is not preparation for someone else to figure out the divorce. The resolution is built here.
Legal Finalization. Not a Restart.
We build the resolution. Independent counsel finalizes it.
The 30-Day Resolution Framework
Resolution doesn’t happen by accident. It gets engineered.
Four disciplined sprints. One engineered resolution.
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Days 1–7. Build the complete picture.
We replace fragmented information with one structured, technology-enabled record—financial data, assets, liabilities, property, retirement, business interests, parenting schedules, responsibilities, household realities and other key information.
One source of truth. Immediate visibility.
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Days 8–15. Turn information into intelligence.
Our proprietary technology-enabled stack models financial and asset scenarios, surfaces tax-sensitive and retirement considerations, and structures parenting schedules and practical responsibilities so alternatives can be evaluated together before major decisions are made.
Analyze first. Decide from the whole picture.
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Days 16–23. Build the Resolution Together.
With the information organized and the scenarios modeled, both parties work through the interconnected financial, parenting, operational and practical decisions required to establish shared direction.
Rainier & Hawthorne applies more than 25 years of corporate-strategy expertise to the scenarios, tradeoffs, priorities, dependencies and difficult decisions required to engineer a workable resolution.
Technology has organized the complexity. Human expertise now drives the resolution.
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Days 24–30. Complete the Resolution Architecture.
The analysis, decisions and shared direction developed through the first three sprints are consolidated into one completed resolution architecture.
This is not preparation for the traditional divorce process. The work of resolution has already been done.
The completed architecture then moves to independent licensed counsel for legal finalization.
Legal Finalization. Not a Restart.
THE RAINIER AND HAWTHORNE ADVANTAGE
The Traditional Model Was Built for Litigation. So We Built One for Resolution.
THE LEGACY DIVORCE MODEL
Legal process first.
Fragmented work.
Open-ended time and cost.
Resolution comes later.
DIVORCE ARCHITECTURE
Resolution first.
One integrated operating system.
30-Day Resolution Framework.
Defined project budget.
Independent counsel finalizes.
Different Starting Point. Different Operating Model. Different Category.
25 Years of Corporate Strategy. Now Applied to Divorce Resolution.
For 25 years, David M. Irwin, Jr. has guided companies and their leaders through complex, high-stakes situations where facts, sequencing, trade-offs, and judgment matter.
After experiencing the traditional divorce system firsthand, he saw the structural problem:
Divorce was being treated as a legal process before the resolution had been built.
Rainier & Hawthorne was created to change that.
Divorce Architecture applies corporate-strategy discipline, proprietary technology and human expertise to build the resolution first.
“I didn’t build another divorce service. I built a different operating model—one designed to reach the resolution before legal finalization.”
The Founder’s Perspective
Divorce Should Start With Resolution.
30 Days. Clear Scope. Defined Total Project Budget. Built for Resolution.
Divorce Architecture is a defined project—not an open-ended billing process.
Before we begin, you know the scope, timeline and total project budget.
Legal finalization is separately retained and paid directly to independent counsel, with the amount defined upfront.
You know the plan. You know the price. You know the path to resolution.
No blank check. No billing clock. No bullshit.