Financial Dignity After Divorce

Are you ready to recover a positive and healthy relationship . . .with your money?Money is the third person in any marriage, but unlike your ex, money will be with you forever. That's why it's important for a divorcing woman to not only heal her heart but also learn how to mend her relationship with money.If you're feeling overwhelmed and confused about handling money on your own after a divorce, you're not alone. Christine Luken, Founder of the Financial Dignity® Movement, writes not just from a place of expertise but also personal experience. After guiding countless women to a place of financial security and independence, Christine has compiled those success stories with a step-by-step process for women to effectively manage both their emotions and their money.In this book you'll learn how to:?Increase your financial security?Identify & defuse your emotional money hot buttons ?Manage your personal finances with ease and confidence?Release the money baggage from your previous relationship-for good?And develop healthy money behaviors to carry you confidently into your bright futureFinancial Dignity® After Divorce is an easy to read, practical, and inspirational personal finance book for divorcing or separating women. You don't have to take this journey alone. You can mend your heart and your relationship with money.

"When it comes to divorce, there's the old way- and there's the fair way. I know, because I learned the hard way." —Karen Stewart Divorce is costly. It costs money-masses of your money. It costs time-hours and hours spent in meetings, on the telephone, and completing paperwork and depositions and filing affidavits. It costs heartache as battle lines are drawn and loved ones, especially children, suffer emotional pain. Karen Stewart's own harrowing story of divorce is an unqualified testament to these truths. Her experience led her to believe that there had to be a better way to end a marriage and get on with life. Her ideas and vision evolved into Fairway Divorce Solutions, which provides a model for divorce with dignity and an end to traditional divorce. the Fairway Process Offers: a strategic step-by-step process that brings win-win resolutions regarding children, property, and money a decision-making process that leads to consensus and fair outcomes a focus on the children of the marriage a plan to control costs that can often escalate out of control in typical divorce proceedings a process that rejects blame or victimization a focus on the future that has a well-thought-out plan for parenting and finances. More and more Canadians are turning to this new divorce approach to help them transition to new beginnings. If you are facing the reality of divorce, you owe it to yourself, our chi8ldren, and your bank account to read a book that offers promise, not dread, and calm instead of a storm. "This Practical step-by-step process will not only save considerable time, energy and money, but most of all it will provide a clear path for a hopeful future." —Les Hewitt

Inspired by her own divorce, D. L. Mars' "Death of a Fairy Tale" is a wide-eyed and unflinching look at what causes marriages to fall apart and a candid exploration of how to grow through the pain of broken dreams.Drawing on the vast experiences of scores of women, the book examines the psychological, financial, and physical impact a traumatizing relationship can have on its victim. With uncompromising honesty and moments of humor, "Death of a Fairy Tale" affirms that life should not end when a marriage does, reminding us that things like deceit and suffering need to have an expiration date.

"Christine Luken does a wonderful job taking complex financial topics and making them easy to understand. Reading Money is Emotional is like having a conversation with a knowledgeable friend." -Robert Pagliarini, CFP, EA, Author of The Sudden Wealth Solution _______________ If money is emotional, then why do we persist in trying to manage our personal finances logically? We already know what it takes to become financially healthy: spend less than we make, pay down our debt, and save more money. Money management books, tools, and techniques abound, yet most of us don't utilize them. Maybe you've adopted the practice of ignoring money problems until they are barreling down on you like a tidal wave, as I once did. I know what it feels like to be drowning financially. I'd like to propose a better alternative, one that doesn't require you to eat beans and rice or to spend hours updating budget spreadsheets. My approach to personal finance is called "Mindful Money Management." It is unique in that it harnesses the power of your emotions, so they can propel you forward like a rocket booster towards your Preferred Financial Destination. Yes, money is emotional, but you can prevent your heart from hijacking your wallet. Let me show you how.

Legal fees piling up. Kids picking sides. The mortgage. The credit card debt. The business. Hours (billable hours!) in the courtroom...Whether you are divorcing after a few years of marriage, or as part of a "gray divorce" after practically a lifetime, those are the images "divorce" brings to mind. But what if it doesn't have to be that way? What if your divorce was instead about closing the chapter on a life stage, about giving both parties more freedom, about finding a way to split amicably and in a way that honors what's best for your family instead of being told what's best by the state rubric?In Divorce with Dignity, financial professional Chris Heerlein and family attorney James W. Evans outline the process for an Agreed Divorce, a faster, less expensive and more amicable solution to divorce that is possible when both parties are willing to work together. Together, Heerlein and Evans outline the emotional and financial benefits of Agreed Divorce using a step-by-step walk through the process as well as actual case studies of those whose divorces were amicable, and those whose weren't. Learn how, with patience and communication, you can cooperatively decide what is best for your family, and possibly divorce with dignity.Chris Heerlein, a Texas native, is Partner at REAP Financial and Founder of REAP Private Client Group (RPCG), a family practice that since 2007 has helped private business owners, top-level executives and affluent individuals create, transition, preserve, and grow their wealth over generations. RPCG serves corporate and private clients, offering objective financial and investment advice, advanced tax planning, business succession planning, and exceptional service that creates generational relationships built on trust. Affluent families and individuals look to Chris and his team of advisers to empower them by providing organization, accountability, objectivity, pro-activity, education, and partnership. James W Evans is the principal of Evans Family Law Group, which since 2010 has concentrated exclusively on family law practice in Central Texas. The son of an attorney and Texas legislator, Jimmy's varied career has included service as a criminal prosecutor and civil litigator, and in legislative practice. His firm, Evans Family Law Group, has served residents of Austin and surrounding counties since 1995. It later adopted its current focus of exclusively family law. Agreed (or "Uncontested") Divorces are a special emphasis. Jimmy is board certified in family law and is a trained mediator. Jimmy was named Texas Monthly's "Super Lawyers" in 2017, 2018, and 2019."

Packed with research, insights, and illuminating (and often funny) examples from Paris’s own divorce experience, this book is a “practical and reassuring guide to parting well.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project Engaging and revolutionary, filled with wit, searing honesty, and intimate interviews, Splitopia is a call for a saner, more civil kind of divorce. As Paris reveals, divorce has improved dramatically in recent decades due to changes in laws and family structures, advances in psychology and child development, and a new understanding of the importance of the father. Positive psychology expert and author of Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar, writes that Paris’s “personal insights, stories, and research” create “a smart and interesting guide that can be extremely helpful for those going through divorce.” Reading this book can be the difference between an expensive, ugly battle and a decent divorce, between children sucked under by conflict or happy, healthy kids. This is “a compelling case that it’s high time for a new definition of Happily Ever After—for everyone” (Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time).

It is never too early to get a financial reality check to ensure long term financial security. Practical, savvy, and wide-ranging, Own Your Financial Freedom will inform women of important financial constructs prior to marriage and educate women on the ‘what-if’ of a divorce proceeding and post-divorce money management. By making effective money decisions at every stage of your life, if a divorce is ever inevitable, you will feel far more in control and aware of what you are entitled to, making divorce a straightforward process and not a lengthy battle. Packed with essential advice from professionals and financial gurus, Own Your Financial Freedom will help anyone navigate through the emotionally, economically and legally challenging divorce procedure. From understanding entitlements, coming to a settlement and to planning long-term investments, this book is an essential guide to achieving financial freedom. Currently the principal of Wiser Wealth, Andrea Kennedy is an investment manager who has been providing coaching and consultation services to couples, families and professional women for the past decade in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. Andrea has a blog, “Women on Money” (www.wiserwealth.net/blog), and is often interviewed for her perspectives on wealth creation for women and couples. Andrea has a bachelor degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in International Affairs and Economics and is a certified financial planner (CFP). Originally from Chicago, Andrea has lived in Asia for the last 20 years

The Complete Financial Handbook for the Newly Divorced is a useful, handy, easy-to-read guidebook, full of interesting and meaningful information that most newly separated or divorced individuals should be thinking about and, hopefully, implementing. This book will address and help to solve the Question of "What do I do next?"