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In appeals from final judgments for child custody, you have 15 days from the date shown in the clerk's certificate of distribution at the bottom of the final judgment, decree or decision to file a Notice of Appeal.
All of this to say, a divorce will be declared final in a court setting by a judge at least 60 days after the divorce was filed. 60 days is an unusually short amount of time to negotiate all the settlements of a divorce, so you should plan for your divorce to take longer than this. If spouses are not in agreement, it normally takes about six months to one year for the two parties to come to terms and arrive at a settlement that can be finalized.