Protecting You And Your Money

A street–smart guide by a trusted expert that exposes how we make shocking money mistakes, often involving the people we trust the most, and explains how we can prevent or undo those missteps. In Everybody Wants Your Money, David W. Latko uses straight talk, a sense of humor, and vivid human stories from the trenches of real life, to illuminate the potentially catastrophic fiscal missteps that Americans make in the course of their lives. He shows readers a sensible path to success and financial security, carefully documented with solid facts. As Latko emphasizes throughout the book, most of the money–related lessons we have been taught since childhood simply are wrong. Attempting to apply such misinformation to our personal financial practices, virtually ensures failure. We fall into these money traps by trusting our family, our adult children, our financial advisors, neighbors, or friends. Most of these people mean us no conscious harm, but are in the grips of the same misguided conventional wisdom that leads people into money minefields that cost us BIG. Latko advises readers on the common errors people make in selecting and entrusting a financial advisor, and explains how to make an informed choice where you stay in control. He brings to light the mistakes many retirees make in giving their adult children the keys to their financial kingdom –and offers innovative, low–risk strategies for protecting, and passing on, our lifetime's wealth. Latko challenges the conventional wisdom of divorce settlements, asserting that the so–called 'equal' division of assets is almost always a travesty to the women involved. Using real–life case histories, Latko shows precisely how most divorce settlements are structured to trap the ex–spouse in a downward spiral of poverty.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition

Avoid Costly Divorce Mistakes Ending a marriage may be the most challenging life event you will ever face. Whether you're contemplating divorce or in the middle of one right now, you need to be prepared to face the tough questions: What's going to happen to your lifestyle, money, and retirement? What pitfalls should you avoid, and what steps do you need to take to move forward? How do you protect your family, your children, and your future? If you're overwhelmed by the prospect of divorce or you're simply fed up with one-size-fits-all online articles and advice, you need Divorce and Your Money: How to Avoid Costly Divorce Mistakes. Written by Shawn Leamon, MBA, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, and host of the #1 divorce financial podcast, Divorce and Your Money, this no-nonsense, user-friendly guide provides a complete plan for facing the tough decisions in your divorce. Shawn's work has been seen in Time, USA Today, Yahoo! Finance, Nasdaq, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications across the United States. His website, DivorceAndYourMoney.com has over 1 million viewers and his podcast has over 500,000 downloads. With the practical strategies outlined in Divorce and Your Money, you will take control of your divorce, your money, and your future. Learn the essentials of planning for your divorce, like how to choose the right divorce strategies, determine if your attorney is fighting for you, and how to move forward to benefit you and your family.

Nine harsh realities and nine practical solutions from Gordon Pape, Canada’s trusted and widely read financial expert In this hard-hitting new book, personal finance expert Gordon Pape zeroes in on the realities of retirement that confront Canadians, including collapsing pension plans, a tax system that works against us, pitiful savings rates, and the fact that there are no “safe” investments. What lies ahead is a series of wrenching changes to our retirement system as governments and corporations struggle to cope with a tidal wave of harsh economic, demographic, and social realities. But it is not all doom and gloom if you take control of your money now! With his trademark take-action advice, Pape helps you to understand the realities of retirement and offers practical solutions for protecting your family’s future in a rapidly changing world. If you want to ensure that you have enough money for retirement, Pape’s approach to finance will teach you how to create a financial plan that works, pay off debt (and stay debt free), invest wisely, understand your pension plan, minimize taxes, and more. In these lean times, Retirement’s Harsh New Realities is a must-read for all Canadians. Take control and learn how to protect your future.

This comprehensive guide to senior issues covers all the financial issues that affect mature Americans, including health care, insurance, protecting investments and retirement savings, housing decisions, and long term care including nursing homes.

Wall Street Journal “Love and Money” columnist Jeff D. Opdyke offers a compassionate and highly effective handbook designed to help elderly parents manage their money. Protecting Your Parents’ Money is the essential guide to helping Mom and Dad navigate the finances of retirement, covering such topics as understanding Medicare, preventing elder fraud, and the hunt for a quality, affordable retirement home. Protecting Your Parents’ Money is a book everyone should own, as members of the Baby Boomer generation find themselves dealing with the many financial problems surrounding aging parents, and face their own future as seniors.

The bestselling author of Talk Money to Me teaches women how to feel confident about their money, save and spend wisely, and advocate for themselves. Do you want to know how to pay off that debt and start saving? Ready to negotiate a salary raise or better benefits? Do financial terms and options make your head spin? Here’s the good news: we as women have more financial freedom and money now than ever before. Here’s the bad news: when it comes to money, many women become paralyzed by financial management and sometimes even defer big decisions to other people, much to their detriment. What’s the solution? Financial empowerment. In this handy guide, you will learn how to: -Discuss money with your partner -Determine realistic and attainable goals -Negotiate for the salaries and benefits you deserve -Splurge occasionally while still saving money -Understand financial risks and make good investments -Gain control of your financial destiny With years of experience as a personal finance educator, bestselling author Kelley Keehn will give you the tools you need to keep and grow your wealth, even if you don’t have much to start from—yet. This unique book brings to life the most common financial conundrums women face, teaching you how to save, spend, invest, and plan for a strong financial future.

This book addresses the very many considerations persons face in handling their income, savings, investing, borrowing, protecting against risks, and tax planning. Somewhat surprisingly our educational system, at the high school level and beyond, rarely addresses this myriad of issues both problems and opportunities -- that can be categorized as personal finances. Our schools lecture) ceaselessly about the challenges of drugs, sex, alcohol, smoking, social media and wellness -- and appropriately so, since young people are exposed to endless opportunities to make poor and harmful decisions regarding each of those matters. But so also are adults at all ages teenagers to senior citizens confronted by a host of challenges and opportunities as to how to manage their personal finances -- from before they receive their first paychecks and continuing on through retirement and death. As we proceed through high school, college, and even graduate school, we may take courses in accounting, finance, economics, and taxation, all of which offer tidbits of advice on handling our personal finances, but none are comprehensive in addressing personal finance. This book seeks to fill that void.