Posts Tagged ‘Financial Life After Divorce’

IDFA 2010 Survey: Recession and Divorce

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

The Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts recently completed a survey of it’s membership. Almost two hundred members responded from around the United States.
69% of Certified Divorce Financial Analysts said they had seen clients who could not afford to get divorced because of recession-related financial problems.
When asked to assess the difference that current economic conditions have made [...]

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Emotional Decision-Making can be Irrational

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Would you pay $28 for a $20 bill. Some people would. Learn how Behavioral Finance can help us understand why.
“Research shows that there are conditions under which an individual is willing and quite happy to pay $28 for a $20 bill at auction. Some have written about how we can apply Einstein’s theory of relativity [...]

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Financial Advisors as Architects of Decision Making

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

“Experience as financial advisors has taught us that truly meaningful and productive advisory relationships are created when we place ourselves as architects of the client’s financial decision-making process rather than as the judge and jury of the best and most-rational economic outcome.”
The quote above has been excerpted from most recent article in a series I [...]

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How does the Collaborative Divorce Process Function?

Friday, April 30th, 2010

I was recently reminded of an amazingly clear and accurate analogy drawn by my friend and colleague Peter Roussos, MFT in order to explain how the Collaborative Divorce process functions for divorcing couples. Here it is with thanks to Peter.
How does the Collaborative Divorce Process Function?
A Collaborative Process is a lot like a Charter Airplane Service.  [...]

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – What does healthcare reform mean for Divorce?

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The complete details are not yet known as many of the provisions require sweeping overhauls to the way medical insurance has been sold and administered in the United States. As is common in bills of such a large magnitude [...]

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