Divorce Financial Planning

The financial ramifications of a divorce can be devastating. But with proper planning and expert help from professionals specializing in financially equitable divorce settlements, you can increase your chances of arriving at a settlement that fully addresses your long-term financial needs -- and your spouses too.

What's missing in most divorce processes is financial expertise. A qualified financial planner or Certified Divorce Planner can forecast the long-term effects of the settlement.

By using a Certified Divorce Planner, both partners have a clearer view of their financial futures. Only then can they approach a settlement that fully addresses the financial needs and capabilities of each.

What you need to know:

About Divorce Financial Planning: Planning for the future is an essential part of every divorce settlement. Separating or divorcing couples often face a major transformation in each of their financial circumstances.

How Divorce Financial Planning Helps: Planning for your future as well as your children's is an essential part of every divorce settlement. Establishing a team to help you through this difficult period is paramount to your well-being.

The Value of a Divorce Financial Planner: A Divorce Financial Planner is a valuable resource when contemplating a divorce, while the divorce is in progress, and after a divorce.

The Most Important Steps in Securing Your Financial Future: Divorce is wrought with extreme emotional and financial turbulence. Histories that bound families, friends and home life are disrupted. Standards of living are often changed, not just for spouses but for the children as well.

Divorce Planning Case Scenario: This sample case illustrates the value of financial planning as a means of reaching more equitable divorce settlements. If the court's intent is to treat both parties in a divorce as equitably as possible, it is essential to analyze the marriage as if it were a financial contract, with tangible investment into it by both parties.

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Even Divorce Requires Planning
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Dividing Assets in Divorce, Percentage or Dollar Amount?
Forensic Accounting in a Divorce
Gray Areas in Gross Income Available Calculations

Many More Articles:
Financial Articles
Valuation of Property Articles
Tax Aspects Articles

Related Checklists:

Checklist for a Financially Successful Divorce

Related Divorce Laws:

Property Distribution Laws (All 50 States)

Related Divorce Law Tables:

Property Classification Upon Divorce (All 50 States)
Property Valuation Date Upon Divorce (All 50 States)
Date of Classification for Property Upon Divorce (All 50 States)

Related Community Forums:

Financial Issues
Pension Issues
Property Issues
Tax Issues

Related Downloads:

The Property Division Handbook
Protecting Your Assets During Divorce
Divorce and Financial Checklist
Pension Issues and Divorce
What Happens to the Marital Home
Valuation of Businesses in Divorce Cases
Identification/Division of Dissipated Assets
Identifying Unusual Types of Divisible Property
Division of Intellectual Property Interest
Tracing Separate Property - Commingled Account
Equitable Distribution of Stock Options
Equitable Distribution of Lottery Winnings
The Effect of Bankruptcy During Divorce

Related Books:

Divorce & Money
The Property Division Handbook
Asset Protection from Divorce
The Spousal Support Handbook
Fairshare Divorce for Women

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