Creating a Financial Plan When Starting From Ground Zero in a Divorce

About this episode

The episode discusses how to create a financial plan after a divorce, focusing on starting from scratch and managing financial anxiety.

Send us Fan Mail Divorce can flip your financial life overnight, especially if you were not the person paying the bills, tracking accounts, or managing investments. We sit down with Ryan Finley, CPA and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, to map out what a real “ground zero” financial reset looks like and how to replace panic with a clear plan you can actually follow. We start with the basics that make everything else possible: gathering documents, building a marital balance sheet, and tran...

People in this episode

Guest: Ryan Finley

Topics covered

• divorce
• financial planning
• financial reset
• panic management

Keywords

• financial life
• marital balance sheet
• gathering documents

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