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About Go Divorce Clinic

Go Divorce Clinic (GDC) was created to provide an affordable, uncomplicated, practical and humane path through divorce for couples who are willing to cooperate. GDC has always focused solely on self-represented cooperating married couples seeking to transition out of their marriage. The legal system is by nature adversarial. Yet 70% of divorcing couples in California are statistically cooperative uncontested divorces. If you are among those who can work together, Go Divorce Clinic was designed specifically for you.

Since November of 2008, GDC has helped couples in Sonoma County and the greater North Bay region complete uncontested divorces in California quickly, without attorneys, without court hearings, and without unnecessary expense. Our work is rooted in experience that demonstrates that divorce does not need to be adversarial — and that for many couples, cooperation leads to better outcomes for everyone involved.

GDC Divorce Philosophy & The Sacredness of Children

At Go Divorce Clinic, we feel strongly that no one should have to go to court simply to dissolve a marriage in cases where the couple is not trying to hurt each other. We believe that such couples require a structured environment where they can safely discuss and execute a marital dissolution without being set against one another. And when children are involved, a cooperative divorce process becomes essential because we believe that the children’s well-being should always come first.

These principles guide every aspect of the GDC process.

Experience You Can Trust

Go Divorce Clinic was founded by Robert Revel, a Registered Legal Document Assistant (LDA) and Mediator who has been mediating and teaching conflict resolution since 1998. His work spans more than two decades of hands-on experience helping individuals and families navigate difficult transitions with clarity and respect.

Robert Revel’s professional background includes:

  • Credentialed Advanced Paralegal, University of California, Santa Cruz (2007)
  • Credentialed Mediator, J.F.K. University (1998)
  • Sonoma County Registered Legal Document Assistant (LDA #40)
  • Colorado State–sanctioned Court-Appointed Parenting Coordinator (Special Master) pursuant to C.R.S. §14-10-128.1 (2005)
  • Trainer, Center for Nonviolent Communication (1997–2004)
  • Facilitator, Alternatives to Violence Project, San Quentin State Prison (1998–1999)
 

In addition to his professional practice, Robert Revel is a published author whose work reflects a long-standing interest in human behavior, conflict, and resolution:

  • Razing Men — Self-Help Nonfiction, Phaedrus Publishing (2011)
  • Pilate — A Philosophical Closet Drama, Phaedrus Publishing (2014)
  • The 5th Phenomenon — Meta-Science Nonfiction, Phaedrus Publishing (2018)
  • Till Only Love Remains —40 years of compiled Poetry from the Author.

Personally Operated, Community-Based

Go Divorce Clinic is a personally owned and managed business. Robert Revel has worked directly with couples processing uncontested divorces in Northern California since 2008. He is a part of the community he serves.

There are no chatbots, no outsourced support, and no distant customer service agents. When couples use Go Divorce Clinic, they are guided by the same people who designed the process and who stand behind it.

The GDC Online Portal

Robert Revel found the demand for the GDC’s brand of services far exceeded his capacity to individually serve every couple one-on-one. Robert felt compelled to try and serve the unmet needs of the thousands of couples outside the GDC caseload capacity. He dreamed of a do-it-yourself online process that flowed like the in-person process he had honed over decades. Drawing on the abundant experience of direct, in-person uncontested divorce work, Go Divorce Clinic developed a one-of-a-kind collaborative online portal specifically for cooperating couples.

Through a shared GDC Portal dashboard, both spouses are guided step by step through the entire GDC uncontested divorce process. All required court forms are automatically generated based on the information entered into the system, and the process concludes with a custom marital settlement agreement builder that allows couples to clearly document their agreements. The cooperation-based workflow and GDC agreement builder features are wholly unique to the GDC Portal.

The portal includes:

  • Clear written instructions
  • Contextual tool tips and explanations
  • In-house video guidance presented by the founders themselves

This is not a generic “online divorce” product. It is a carefully designed system built from real-world experience, intended to reduce confusion, minimize stress, and properly guide couples forward through the process without bogging down in confusion or overwhelm.

A Proven Process

When cooperating couples follow the GDC Portal workflow, we can safely predict they will receive a finalized California divorce judgment because of the proven results of over 20 years of this process working with GDC’s in in-person clients. When clients follow GDC directions and complete our process, 100% of them get a divorce decree. Every single one. That’s an unheard-of achievement in 20 years of processing divorces in the family law industry.

Now you can have the same results on your own through the GDC Portal. We have taken great care to design a do-it-yourself divorce system that mirrors our proven process, that will work for you — and we know it will, because we have seen it work for decades.

A Clear Way Forward

Divorce can be scary and overwhelming, but it does not have to be chaotic, drawn-out or adversarial. It also does not need to be a financially devastating event.

For couples who are ready and willing to work together, Go Divorce Clinic provides a clear, structured path through the divorce process — start to finish.

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