Know these two numbers before you sit down to negotiate and you'll never have to worry you missed something. Understanding your numbers pre and post divorce are critical for being smart during negotiations. When people come to me before divorce negotiations, I ask them one question first: Do you know what your marriage actually costs? Most don’t. And that’s the single most expensive mistake you can make before sitting across from your spouse at a negotiating table. Here’s wha

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When you're considering divorce but have zero access to financial information because your spouse manages everything, the whole idea of leaving can feel impossible. How are you supposed to negotiate a settlement when you don't even know what accounts exist? How do you plan for your future when you literally have no idea what you have I hear this exact fear almost every day from people who reach out to me. You're definitely not alone in feeling completely in the dark about you

The decision-making framework I created during my own divorce — and now use with every single client — to help you stop making choices from fear and start making them from strategy. Divorce is chess, not checkers. Every move you make has consequences that ripple out for years — so make them count. When I was going through my own divorce, I was completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of decisions I had to make. Big ones, small ones, financial ones, emotional ones—they just