Serving San Diego and Southern California Since 2001
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About Pacific Divorce Management
A new beginning; is what most people want after a divorce. Unfortunately, the journey to that new beginning is all too often a long, ugly, and painful experience.
In the traditional American divorce both parties obtain an attorney, bitter litigation ensues, and whoever is awarded 51% of the assets wins. It is a depressing process that has significant, and sometimes permanent, financial and emotional consequences for all parties involved. It is a terrible way to end a marriage and does not provide for wise divorce financial planning.
Pacific Divorce Management’s Mission
Pacific Divorce Management’s mission is to help couples address the legal, emotional, and financial aspects of divorce in a civilized, equitable, and efficient manner by providing expert divorce financial planning advice.
While dissolving a marriage is never pleasant, it does not have to be an ongoing exercise in mutual misery. Pacific Divorce Management provides divorce financial planning services with a focus on the long term well being of all parties. The processes known as Mediation and Collaborative Divorce are forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution that Pacific Divorce Management specializes in. They require the cooperation of both parties who see divorce not as a battle to be fought but as a problem to be solved through the teamwork of attorneys, divorce financial planning experts, and counseling professionals.
Collaborative Divorce
A divorce can be the largest financial transaction of an individual’s lifetime. The marital estate constitutes years of both emotional and financial investments. It is extremely complex and difficult to untangle therefore, a divorce financial planning expert is an ideal team member to have. By using Collaborative Divorce as a means to end a marriage the traditionally adversarial approach is replaced with a cooperative experience that includes pre and post divorce financial planning. Because both parties of the divorce function as members of the team seeking problem resolution, Collaborative Divorce tends to cost 60-80% of the price of a traditional litigated divorce. The Collaborative process is not only more cost effective than traditional litigation but it creates better post divorce relationships for the family.
Mediation in Divorce
Pacific Divorce Management specializes in Mediation Divorce as well. Mediation Divorce is where a neutral facilitator assists the parties in reaching a mutually satisfactory settlement. The Pacific Divorce Management Team is trained in mediation to help ensure both parties come to an equally beneficial agreement through facilitated meetings and sound divorce financial planning advice. Mediation tends to be the most cost effective way to settle a divorce, it gives the parties control over how quickly the process moves and control over the decisions they will be living with post divorce. It also provides the ability for both parties to have pre and post divorce financial planning. Mediation helps each party learn to communicate with each other providing a better post divorce relationship for the family than a divorce ended through a litigation battle filled with anger.
Litigated Divorce
At Pacific Divorce Management we are aware Alternative Dispute Resolution models such as Collaborative Divorce and Mediation do not always work for couples choosing to go their separate ways. If it is decided that litigation is the best route to take when ending a marriage we are able to work with your attorney to make sure sound financial decisions are made through our experience with divorce financial planning so there are no unexpected financial consequences and the most favorable financial outcome is achieved. Professionals at Pacific Divorce Management are trained as Expert Financial Analysts and can serve as a neutral or advocate in the litigation process. They also provide pre and post divorce financial planning services for their litigation clients.
Divorce Financial Support
By choosing to have Pacific Divorce Management guide you through the divorce process you are choosing to enlist the help of a team of Certified Financial Planners™ (CFP®) and Certified Divorce Financial Analysts™ (CDFA™). A CDFA™ has received specialized training and experience with the financial issues surrounding a divorce therefore, at Pacific Divorce Management we have knowledge in the fields of law, divorce financial planning, and accounting.
The Pacific Divorce Management team is trained to determine the short-term and long-term financial impact of a settlement agreement, offer insight into the pros and cons of different settlement proposals, help you avoid the common financial mistakes made in a divorce, and create personalized reports to illustrate your financial status, cash flow, and net worth through pre and post divorce financial planning. Through the help of Pacific Divorce Management you can better understand complex concepts such as personal vs. marital property, valuing and dividing property, retirement and pensions, spousal and child support, splitting the house, tax problems and solutions, and which settlement option is going to be best long term. Pacific Divorce Management offers expertise in pre and post divorce financial planning.
Expert Divorce Financial Planning
By providing expert divorce financial planning advice, guidance, and consulting for each client Pacific Divorce Management ensures the divorce process is as mutually beneficial to both parties as possible. At Pacific Divorce Management we are committed to providing sound divorce financial planning guidance therefore, new beginnings are not plagued with anger, frustration, and discontent but with sound financial decisions that will allow your post divorce life to be as comfortable and successful as possible.