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Many women facing divorce, as well as their attorneys, decide to work with divorce financial advisors. Adding a financial planner’s expertise to the divorce team provides key assistance in preparing a case for litigation or mediation in Arizona cases. 

Many attorneys haven’t worked with a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® before, and so they wonder: What’s the difference?

A cautionary tale In each of these articles, I tell you a story about how I help women with the financial side of divorce. That’s usually the case. This time, it isn’t.

Confession: I was looking up words that rhyme with “mediation” in my search for a title to this little article, in which I’m about to describe how I help divorcing women, and their attorneys, with the financial side of the process.

That’s a bold question: Can I help you grow your practice? It’s bold, because some attorneys assume the opposite, that I will somehow reduce their revenue or income.

Julie had the honor of being a guest for a second time on See the Upside Podcast! In this episode, Julie goes into more depth on how to prepare financially for a separation or divorce. Follow the link below to listen to the podcast!

After-the-fact facts: Some family-law attorneys ask me if I help my clients after the divorce is finalized. The others should. It’s an important question.

Listen to this one: I recently worked on a divorce case in which the separating couple had agreed to bring in a neutral business valuation analyst, to help ascertain what the husband’s business was worth, in order to craft an equitable settlement that would include spousal maintenance. That’s a smart, prudent, and commendable move.

Let’s start with a simple set of facts: You bill by the hour. I do, too, but I also am compensated in other ways which give me a degree of flexibility on the clock that you don’t have.