The Importance of Knowing Where You Stand Financially

We know that divorce is seldom ever simple. It can be amicable or a relief, and it can be painful, not just for the spouses but for children and other family members as well. It's great when there are support groups and close friends and family to help navigate the emotional tide. Amid the uncertainties, however, there is something that is best served by applying outside expertise and experience: dealing with shared finances and assets.

Your Divorce Made Simple (YDMS) was launched to help fill the real need for the careful and respectful distribution of marital assets, and to provide experienced mediation and financial advice and planning, before and after divorce.

Your Divorce Made Simple is a practical alternative to the traditional method of hiring lawyers, who often have little or no financial planning expertise. Lawyers work for individuals, and although YDMS may be forced to access important information about assets and financials through only one of the parties in the divorce, our analyses and conclusions support the fair and equitable distribution of marital assets for both parties.

The best case scenario is when the divorcing couple comes to the table for a mediation process that will yield a fair result quicker. But even when we are working through one spouse, our process is more expedient, takes less time, and is less costly than hiring individual lawyers.

"My attorney suggested I use the team at Your Divorce Made Simple to help with the division of assets while going through divorce. They helped with planning and divorce negotiations, in the beginning, to see if we could divide our marital assets amicably with an attorney or mediation. By sitting down with Amy we were able to successfully negotiate the division of assets and we used the attorney to draw up the legal documents and file the court paperwork."