What to Do When You Suspect Financial Abuse

About this episode

The episode discusses how to recognize and respond to financial abuse in the context of power imbalances in financial decision-making.

Send us Fan Mail When control shapes financial decisions, listening becomes the most important tool we have. In Part 2, I spoke with Joy Slabaugh, CFP, about how advisors and advocates can thoughtfully respond when they suspect a power imbalance is shaping financial decisions. 🔹 Financial abuse is controlling someone’s ability to acquire, use, or maintain economic resources. 🔹 Advisors should be curious and let clients describe their experience in their own words. 🔹 Focus on a...

People in this episode

Host: Tony Steuer

Guest: Joy Slabaugh

Topics covered

• financial abuse
• power imbalance
• financial decisions
• advisors
• advocates

Keywords

• financial abuse
• economic resources
• financial decisions
• advisors
• advocates

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