Your attorney asks for statements on every account the two of you own. Then the paperwork starts, and you realize you don’t know the balance of the retirement account, the login to the brokerage app, or whose names are on the credit cards. That gap is common even in marriages that last. Fidelity found that almost 1 in 4 partners … Read More
Discussing Your Divorce With Your Children: Do’s and Don’ts
The decision is made. Now comes the conversation you have been dreading. How do you tell your kids their parents are getting divorced? About 17% of children in the U.S. live in a blended family with a stepparent or stepsiblings, according to the Pew Research Center. Divorce reshapes millions of families, and your children are not alone in what they … Read More