Divorce Financial Clarity: What a CDFA Wants You to Know

About this episode

In this episode, Leslie Mathews discusses divorce financial planning with Melissa Murphy Pavone, emphasizing the importance of building a supportive team before hiring a lawyer.

Divorce financial planning starts before you hire a lawyer — and the team you build changes everything.📖 Melissa's book — Divorce by Design: https://amzn.to/4e5znpU─────────────────────────────────────What if divorce didn't have to feel like chaos? In this episode of Pulling Threads, host Leslie Mathews sits down with Melissa Murphy Pavone — Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®), Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® (CDFA®), and founder of Mindful Divorce Partners — to talk about what it really means to design your divorce instead of just reacting to it.Melissa explains why the first person you should call is NOT an attorney, how a well-built divorce team actually saves you money, and the most common financial mistake people make — which almost always involves the house.Whether you're quietly thinking about divorce, in the middle of the process, or rebuilding your life after signing the papers — this conversation will change how you think about divorce and money.💡 In this episode:What a CDFA does — and how they differ from a forensic accountantWhy your first call shouldn't be to a lawyerHow a collaborative divorce team saves time AND moneyThe #1 financial mistake in divorce…

People in this episode

Hosts: Leslie Mathews, Leslie

Guest: Melissa Murphy Pavone

Topics covered

• divorce
• financial planning
• mental health

Keywords

• CDFA
• financial mistakes
• collaborative divorce
• divorce team
• financial checklist

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Divorce by Design, Financial Clarity Package

Books & works: Divorce by Design, Pulling Threads

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