Bringing you peace of mind at a crucial time in your life

You have built a marital estate together and are now having to figure out the best way to divide it.   Our hands on approach allows us to work together to craft scenarios for settlement for you to consider in negotiations, we begin by gathering your financial facts and building your financial picture.  We look at the short term and long term implications of those scenarios,  Our services are tailored to help you make well-informed, fair-minded decisions and may include the following:

• Initial Strategy Session
• Budget & Lifestyle Analysis
• Prepare the Financial Affidavit
• Prepare Equitable Distribution Affidavit
• Prepare marital asset spreadsheet
• Evaluate the appropriate mix of assets
• Prepare Document Request 
• Perform tax calculations and tax reviews of both parties
• Perform document review
• Develop budgeting projections 
• Perform future financial projections
• Prepare net present value calculations
• A meeting with your attorney
• Review of Proposals and Counter-proposals
• Preparation for Mediation

There are times when the hurdles seem insurmountable, it is difficult to see the light of hope in the distance, you need a thinking partner.  It is there!  You are experiencing a major life change, it helps to have an ally to listen and help you work through the process, organize your thoughts. Our coaching program allows you to select what we will focus on each of your weekly or bi-weekly sessions, and we tackle it.  Some examples include:

·         Strategize on next steps
·         Preparing for your visit to your lawyer
·         Budgeting
·         Assistance managing the paperwork that divorce requires
·         Communications guidance with your spouse
·         Discussion on settlement issues to consider

You are contemplating a separation and divorce and want to think through the next steps with a neutral party.  We offer ad-hoc time that is a 3 hour window in which we talk through the considerations of such a decision. It includes a workbook to get organized.

According to yourdivorcequestions.org the financial burden is greatest during the first year after divorce and varies depending on: (1) how much money the woman contributed to the family income before divorce, and (2) the ability and willingness of her former husband to make child support payments.

• About one in five women fall into poverty as a result of divorce. (The 2014 poverty line for a family of three is less than $20,000 a year.)
• About one in four women lose their health insurance for a period of time after divorce.
• About one in three women who own a home and have children at home when they divorce lose their homes.
• Three out of four divorced mothers with child-support orders don’t receive their full payment

​When you’re dealing with the complexities of a divorce, you need financial expertise that’s both trustworthy and customized to your individual situation.  We know it is an especially challenging time, together we focus on the business of divorce.  Schedule your consultation to learn how we can help you.