A Path To Financial Recovery After Divorce

Part I of the book is devoted to teaching you how to identify and avoid the mistakes commonly made by divorcees--each of which can set you back years in your recovery.  

The mistakes covered in Part I are:

• Mistake #1:  Trying to Maintain the Same Lifestyle You Lived During the Marriage
• Mistake #2:  Insist on Keeping the Marital Residence After Your Divorce
• Mistake #3:  Retail Therapy 
• Mistake #4:  Not Knowing and Enforcing the Terms of Your Divorce Decree
• Mistake #5:  Allowing Your Melodramatic Alter Ego To Take Over 
• Mistake #6: Listening to Broke People, Enablers, and “Hype Men”
• Mistake #7:  No goals. No plan. 

Once you know what mistakes to avoid, you need a plan.  Part II lays out the exact steps you should take to get out of debt, build up an emergency fund, save for retirement, save for your children's college education, and invest for your retirement. 

Topics covered in Part II include:

• Budgeting
• Debt-Elimination
• Saving & Investing
• Basic and advanced personal finance principals
• Retirement planning
• Answering the question:  "Where do I go from here?"

This book is not just for divorcees.  If you are looking to help someone in the middle of the divorce process or still trying to recover from their divorce, Part III is written especially for you.

Every divorcee has family members, friends, and coworkers who sit by and watch their loved one struggle with money issues, budgeting, spending, and formulating a financial plan post-divorce. Members of the support network often feel ill-equipped or unable to speak up and walk alongside their loved one as they travel the journey to financial recovery.  

Part III speaks directly to the "support network," which is comprised of the friends, family members and coworkers of every divorcee.  If you are interested in learning how to communicate with someone close to you about their finances post-divorce, this is for you.  

Part III will teach you how to address topics without ruining your relationship, violating boundaries, enabling bad decisions, or causing more pain.  After reading the book, you will be equipped to have the conversations that you have been avoiding.