The 5 Most Costly Divorce Agreement Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them Before It’s Too Late) with Susan Guthrie on Divorce & Beyond #416

The 5 Most Costly Divorce Agreement Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them Before It’s Too Late) with Susan Guthrie on Divorce & Beyond #416

From The Divorce and Beyond® Podcast with Susan Guthrie, Esq. by Susan Guthrie

April 6, 2026 · 27 min · Episode 455

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Susan Guthrie discusses the five most costly mistakes people make in divorce agreements and how to avoid them.

Most people assume the hardest part of divorce is getting through it. What they do not realize is that the agreement they sign at the end is what they are going to live with long after it is over. Susan Guthrie has spent more than 35 years watching the same costly patterns show up in her work. What attorneys, mediators, and post-divorce litigation trends are revealing is that many of the most expensive problems people face after divorce are coming directly from how their agreements were structured in the first place. In so many of those situations, the real issue did not start with enforcement. It started with how the agreement was written, and how it was negotiated. In this solo episode, Susan walks through the five most costly mistakes people are making in divorce agreements right now, the patterns that keep showing up again and again, and how to avoid them before it is too late. What You’ll Learn Why rushing to be done is the most common and costly mistake in divorce, and why the agreement you rushed through today is the one you will wish you had slowed down for later How financial misunderstanding leads people to agree to things they do not fully understand, and why confusion…

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