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Money Matters

Planning Your Financial Future After Divorce

The Certified Divorce Financial Advisor (CDFA) consultants traditionally work with people to plan their future post-divorce.
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A coParent’s House Matters Before Divorce

With the exception of child custody issues, few decisions a court makes are as weighty as those regarding the marital home.
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Divorce and Money

Only you can decide whether your eventual reward will be worth the time and expense of a trial. Make sure you understand the pitfalls you’re likely to encounter.
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Protect Your Money in Divorce

Shawn Leamon, MBA and CDFA discusses how to protect your money during your divorce and how to best prepare financially for this life-changing event.
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Getting Approval To Sell Your Home After Divorce

For a short sale to proceed, every selected stakeholder must approve it: all the mortgage holders as well as any other lien holders.
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Avoiding Surprises Before Selling Your Home

Before making any long-range plans of selling a home, it’s important to find out whether your home has any equity.  Reality can pack some rude surprises. If you’re envisioning a comfortable future based on imagined proceeds that will never actually materialize, it’s better to find this out and make the adjustment now, rather than after […]

Divorcing Homeowners – When There’s No Equity to Divide

If you obtained financing at the peak of the market, positive equity may be years away. You still might need to liquidate loans beyond the divorce scenario.
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Spousal Support: Is Alimony Tax Deductible?

Is alimony tax deductible? Yes. alimony, or spousal support, is taxable as income to the recipient. Only payments specifically made as part of the divorce.

Division of Debt After Divorce

Division of debt can be even trickier than the property and assets. It’s not always all that clear-cut; who bought what gets muddy over time, not to mention that big debt like a house or car was often a joint decision. As I mentioned before, my ex created significant debt and did not make payments […]

Divorce and Division of Property

Property division following divorce is typically decided just as much by the state as by you and your soon-to-be ex. It’s critical to understand if you live in a community property state or an equitable distribution state. Currently, only nine states fall into the community property category: Arizona, California, Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, […]

Assessing Your Financial Picture After Divorce

The pressing decision you face regarding your house during a divorce also presents a unique opportunity to assess your entire financial picture.
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Can You Change Spousal Support?

Spousal support, also called alimony, are payments made from one spouse to another after divorce. Shawn Leamon, MBA, CDFA offers insight into the subject of spousal support. The overall purpose of spousal support is to lessen the burden on the spouse who earns lower wages than his or her former spouse. An amount of money is […]

Top 3 Tips to Avoid Divorce Money Mistakes

Divorce is complicated — emotionally, legally and financially. Many of the decisions you make during the process, especially financial decisions, can affect you for decades. Financial expert, Shawn Leamon, offers insight in this story, “3 Ways to Avoid Money Mistakes During Divorce,” originally posted on this page of his website, DivorceAndYourMoney.com. A simple mistake can hurt your […]

Divorce & Finances – With the Kids in Mind

If you have children, their welfare will naturally weigh heavily in your decision-making, as it should. But we’ve noted that knee-jerk decisions made “for the kids” aren’t always the best. On the other hand, you may be so overwhelmed by your own emotional crises that the kids become a distant afterthought. Some clearheaded guidance will […]

Selling Property? Read This First

If you’re selling your property as a result of divorce, you’re going to want to read this first. Financial expert Shawn Leamon wrote a story, “4 Easy Ways to Accurately Appraise the Real Value of Your Marital Home,” originally posted here on this page of his site, DivorceAndYourMoney.com. When you have a home, an apartment, […]