A national platform for families in transition
Every year, millions of our neighbors face the hardest move of their lives.And almost none of them have a guide.
ClearChoice matches trained and certified realtors to advise divorcing homeowners — introducing them at the precise moment they're needed the most, along with a suite of family services delivered at no cost to the household.
Video overview
The innovative, service-first model, explained in five minutes
A useful overview designed to share with a managing broker, agents within your team or peer agents you want to inform.
Chapter one — The gap
88% of divorcing families holding real property navigate this mandatory transaction without skilled guidance.
Chapter two — The platform
Certification, court-verified homeowner data, and the workflow portal that connects the two.
Chapter three — The impact
One million families served by 2030, and the 1% For Families commitment behind it.
~3.9M
divorcing families every year, a steady figure for decades
70.1%
of these divorce cases held real property (2025)
26
sides
per year, on average, transacted by program specialists
88%
of divorcing families go through it with no skilled guidance at all
The platform
Service first. The listing follows.
ClearChoice agents arrive as specialists, armed with detailed property information to discuss the household's financial position. They bring perspective, ask questions and offer useful guidance that builds trust to start the relationship.
Trained & Certified
CCCA signals fluency in divorce real estate proceedings, asset and tax awareness, a base understanding of the court system context of family law, and the ability to hold neutrality along with compassion. Once certified, agents can be practicing within 30 days of enrollment onto the platform.
Become a CCCA
Receive Verified Referrals
Agents are warmly introduced to 5 divorcing homeowner datasets every month, exclusive to one agent in a preselected geo market, sourced from court-verified case filings.
Workflow portal
Create Trust. Deliver Value.
When you meet with a co-homeowner, you'll bring a suite of products & services worth approx $1.5k — at no cost to them.
Join the movement
Traditional agents from brokerages across North America are joining the ClearChoice Network to become trained specialists in divorce real estate.
For agents
A production channel that doesn't depend on you being the most popular.
No more constant prospecting and networking, no more wondering where the next listing will come from, no seasonal fluctuations. Specialist agents are warmly introduced by ClearChoice Families and arrive with valuable resources to instantly guide families in transition. They lead with service. And define their careers with purpose.
26
average sides per year for trained specialists
65%
referral-to-listing conversion, best practice
30
days from enrollment to practicing
“ClearChoice is the future of my business. I love the confidence it gives me knowing no other agents can deliver what I can.”
“I'm no longer concerned with selling myself, making it all about me. This allows me to be all about them.”
“The ClearChoice workflow portal keeps me focused and on task. I know what homeowners need when I meet them and how to approach the planning process.”
For high-performing agents only
Join the ClearChoice movement to assist families in transition.
Certification and referrals are limited within markets, as homeowner referrals are assigned exclusively. Today is the day to make a change — and bring a consistent, reliable channel of production into your career.
Start learning more with our free webinars or ask us directly.
Becoming a Specialty Agent in Divorce Real Estate
Tuesday, September 22 at 11:00 AM EDT
What the certification covers, how territories are assigned, and what the first 30 days look like.
Our mission
To serve one million families by 2030.
Divorce is not a market to us. It is the moment a household's largest asset, its housing stability, and its children's routine all come up for decision at once — usually with no one qualified in the room.
ClearChoice exists to put a trained, neutral, service-first professional in that room, and to fund the services the family needs but cannot easily pay for. We measure ourselves in families served, not sides closed.
1,000,000
families supported through a property transition by 2030 — the single number we hold ourselves to.
22 years
of practice behind us through My Divorce Journey, the legacy program operated by OPTIS Group Holdings.
1% of Revenue
has been committed by every company in the ClearChoice ecosystem to the 1% For Families Fund.
The original court-verified program
Over 2 decades of wisdom, now elevated.
For 22 years, OPTIS Group Holdings has operated My Divorce Journey — the first program in the country to train real estate professionals to work with litigant case data and assist real estate transactions.
We learned from 21,000 brokers & agents who've built highly productive careers what homeowners need most, how trained agents truly serve best, and what consistently wins listings in this niche. ClearChoice is the result. A radically improved, significantly upgraded process and platform — including certification, court-verified homeowner referrals, a daily workflow portal, and a no-cost product suite for the family in transition, all in one beautiful, new model.
Leadership
A passion for solving big problems
ClearChoice executives hail from real estate, technology, data innovation, financial services, consulting and design — now assembled around one problem and turning it into an opportunity for real estate professionals and homeowners alike.
Phil Foss
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
As Chairman of OPTIS Group Holdings, Phil led the legacy My Divorce Journey program through two decades of success for real estate agents and LO's. He conceived the data delivery system and workflow model that the ClearChoice Platform runs on today.
John Burgess
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Applying decades of experience as a creative strategist, John embraced the opportunity to positively impact families through his practice of Human-Centered Strategy. His vision elevated the ClearChoice model and now sits at the center of our operation.
Gary Lister
Chief Technology Officer
Owns the data pipeline behind court-verified homeowner records and the agent workflow portal — the part of the platform no competitor can copy quickly.
Lana Neyolova
Chief Family Services Officer
Curates the no-cost product suite and the CC Families benefits network, and holds the standard for how households are treated at every touchpoint.
James Sundstad
Chief Relationships Officer
Brokerage partnerships and market expansion — responsible for how exclusive territories are assigned and how brokerages adopt the certification at scale.
Agent Success team
Todd Harrison and Ethan Cheever run onboarding, certification and coaching — the two people a new specialist actually talks to every week.
Advisory board
Six advisors keeping us honest
Diverse and relevant experience — enterprise technology, real estate strategy, banking, marketing, digital transformation and financial services — informing our strategy and helping us fulfill our potential.
Joe Massian
Enterprise Sales Leader, AI & Cloud
Bianca Broos
Real Estate Strategic Advisor & Fractional CMO
Kirby Griffin
Banking Consultant, Lending Sector · Asset Manager, FDIC
Norman Guadagno
Fractional CMO, B2B & Security · Carbonite, Microsoft
Lana Neyolova
Digital Transformation Leader, Aerospace Engineer · Boeing, Capgemini
Anthony Galiano
Strategic Advisor to the Financial Services Industry
Helping hundreds of thousands of families takes a dedicated team of specialty agents.
If the purpose and practice speaks to you, then pivot your career and excel as a specialist agent. Become the transition real estate expert in your local market.
Learn more in our free webinar.
Divorce as transition
Useful resources and information
Divorce Across America
State-by-state context on how divorce and property decisions actually unfold.
Coparenting Guidance
Practical ground rules for schedules, communication and shared expenses.
Your Wellness Workbook
Financial wellness, communication and finding balance in times of change.