Avoiding Common Divorce Pitfalls
Understand your financial and emotional limits. When you understand yourself, you are better equipped to be objective. This saves time, which leads to cost savings. If you are not prepared to look at reality – without the emotional entanglements – the outcome will never be what you need, let alone what you want. Instead of … Continue reading Avoiding Common Divorce Pitfalls
Top Considerations for College Planning in Divorce
Divorcing clients and their attorneys may overlook educational plans when drafting settlement agreements. Many are comfortable simply allocating these plans in the settlement agreement to the beneficiary children. However, these accounts are risky to ignore. Their success depends of whether the child has qualified expenses, obtains scholarship and the like. Allocation of education accounts to … Continue reading Top Considerations for College Planning in Divorce
Can using the wrong form invalidate a real estate appraisal in divorce?
Today’s Alert: The Costly Mistake of Using the Wrong Appraisal Form in Divorce In my divorce financial advisory practice, I often see small oversights turn into expensive problems. One such issue was recently highlighted by the Divorce Lending Association: using the wrong appraisal form in divorce proceedings. As Gary Coyle of The Coyle Group explains, … Continue reading Can using the wrong form invalidate a real estate appraisal in divorce?