A New Way to Get Divorced: No Conflict. No Delay. No Billable Hours.

For 25 years, I helped CEOs and leadership teams navigate the toughest, highest-stakes problems their organizations faced. One came up more often than people assume: divorce. I was regularly pulled in to help executives get through it without losing their footing — because a messy divorce never stays contained. It bleeds into leadership, decision-making, and the business itself.

Then I went through my own. And I found out firsthand that the system built to handle divorce is built to produce exactly what it should prevent: conflict, delay, and an open-ended billable-hours clock.

So I did what I'd spent my career doing for the executives and businesses I worked with — I treated it as a strategy problem. For the next 10 years, I studied where the traditional process breaks down and built what should have existed instead.

Now, through Rainier & Hawthorne, I'm bringing that same solution to couples facing divorce. I call it Divorce Architecture.

No conflict. No delay. No billable hours.

Here's what it is. A fixed-fee, technology-enabled process that builds the complete plan for a divorce — money, property, parenting, all of it — in 30 days. Both spouses work from one shared picture instead of two competing ones. Attorneys come in at the end, to finalize what's already been decided — not to negotiate it from scratch.

Here's how we do it.

1. See the Whole Picture. Every asset, account, and obligation goes into one unified record.

2. Understand Your Options. We model the real outcomes and trade-offs before any decision gets made.

3. Work Through the Decisions. Property, finances, and parenting get resolved together — with strategy driving the conversation, not conflict.

4. Build the Resolution. You leave with a complete, documented plan, ready for an attorney to provide legal advice, determine the legal structure, and complete the finalization.

Divorce doesn't have to be a fight that happens to you. It can be a plan you build.

Let's talk — 15 minutes. Private. No documents needed. No obligation.

Call or text: 630.828.1296

https://www.rainierandhawthorne.com/strategic-briefing

— David M. Irwin, Jr., Founder & CEO, Rainier & Hawthorne