Many researchers have speculated over the nature of the divorce recovery process. Is the process similar to Kubler-Ross's stages of grief or does divorce recovery follow a unique process? This paper examines the current body of empirical research in an attempt to answer these questions. From the 91 sources analyzed, it was discovered that most of the literature is either theoretical or clinical. The theoretical literature suggested that recovery from divorce involves a progression through certain time stages: predecision, legal divorce, and postdivorce. While these chronological stages divide the process into specific transition periods, they do not help in identifying the processes of effective adjustment either across or within the time stages. Furthermore, a lack of resources and methodological problems have hampered empirical research, although several process dynamics have been identified, such as the observation that divorcees usually improve over time. However, unlike Kubler-Ross' stages of grief adjustment, no processes or psycho-social stages of divorce recovery have been confirmed by current research. Even so, researchers have learned more about the role that adjustment factors, such as gender, locus of control, and social involvement, play in a divorce. Future research should try to clarify definitions of adjustment, instrumentation, procedures, and sampling. Contains 42 references. (RJM)