Your Active Wealth

Ensuring Financial Wellbeing After Divorce

Episode Summary

Divorce is never easy, but proactive planning can help. Assembling a team of specialists, who are knowledgeable and experienced in all aspects of a settlement, is essential to helping ensure a more positive outcome. In this episode of Your Active Wealth, Judy Barton, wealth and transition advisor at BNY Wealth, provides valuable insight into building a divorce team, as well as what a pre-settlement review should look like and why it is a necessity. Throughout the discussion, she also touches on the different types of divorce proceedings, including litigation and mediation, in addition to the nature of gray divorces, and how they can result in unique financial repercussions that require a nuanced approach. Regardless of marital status, there are always planning steps that can be taken to better protect you and your financial future.

Episode Notes

Divorce is never easy, but proactive planning can help. Assembling a team of specialists, who are knowledgeable and experienced in all aspects of a settlement, is essential to helping ensure a more positive outcome. In this episode of Your Active Wealth, Judy Barton, wealth and transition advisor at BNY Wealth, provides valuable insight into building a divorce team, as well as what a pre-settlement review should look like and why it is a necessity. Throughout the discussion, she also touches on the different types of divorce proceedings, including litigation and mediation, in addition to the nature of gray divorces, and how they can result in unique financial repercussions that require a nuanced approach. Regardless of marital status, there are always planning steps that can be taken to better protect you and your financial future.

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