Divorce Rich with Jacki Roessler, CDFA

Send us Fan Mail Teens can look like they’re doing great while their world is quietly cracking. When parents divorce during adolescence, kids may keep their grades up, stay active, and joke with friends, yet still feel fear, anger, confusion, and a deep sense of loss about the family they thought they had. We sit down with national board certified mental health professional Sarah Kuretzky Rossington to talk about teen divorce recovery and why this stage is so often neglected. Ciick HE...

Send us Fan Mail Divorce feels like someone shuffled your entire life and told you to play the next hand perfectly. We walk you through the first moves that matter most: which documents to gather, how to build a simple but powerful budget, and how to choose an attorney whose strengths match your case and county. Family law attorney Joran Rubin joins us to share what impresses counsel in the first meeting, why three years of tax returns reveal more than you think, and how a budget becomes the ...

Send us Fan Mail Think you can simply “assume” the mortgage and keep that sweet 3% rate? We pull back the curtain on what actually happens when one spouse tries to take over the home loan after divorce—and why lenders often say “maybe” on the phone but “no” in underwriting. With guest Brian Mutter, a Certified Divorce Lending Professional, we unpack how assumptions work, when they collapse under lender-specific rules, and what to do when you still need to pull equity to buy out your spouse. ...

Send us Fan Mail When a family splits, teens often look “fine” on the surface—grades steady, activities unchanged—while carrying a storm of fear, anger, and confusion underneath. We sit down with mental health pro Sarah Kuretzky Rossington to unpack how divorce impacts identity formation, autonomy, and early relationships, and why older kids shouldn’t be left to figure it out alone. We get practical about support that actually works. Sarah explains why narrative therapy helps teens make sens...

Send us Fan Mail Holiday plans are loud; money problems are louder. We press pause on the overwhelm and walk you through a clean, step-by-step year-end checklist designed for life after divorce. From tax withholding to FSAs, investment strategy, and credit safeguards, we focus on the handful of actions that prevent April shocks and set you up for a calmer new year. If you’re rebuilding after divorce and need a focused path to financial stability, this guide gives you practical, timely steps y...

Send us Fan Mail The moment the decree is signed, real life begins. We walk through the first months of financial independence after a divorce and show how small, steady actions create relief fast. Our guest, Angela Cipriano, a financial coach who rebuilt her own life post-divorce, explains how to move from overwhelm to ownership with checklists, simple systems, and a mindset that actually sticks. We start by demystifying the roles: a financial coach handles what most advisors skip—beneficia...

Send us Fan Mail Divorce doesn’t have to be a courtroom sport. We sit down with Michigan family law attorney Randy Pittler to unpack how collaborative divorce reframes the process from “win-lose” to problem solving—replacing subpoenas and shuttle diplomacy with a trained team, full transparency, and solutions built for real life. Randy explains why litigation so often breeds delay, expense, and post‑mediation regret, and how Collaborative Divorce flips the incentives: each spouse has a collab...