DIVORCE FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR OPTIMAL DIVISION OF ASSETS
A CDFA® is Best Qualified to Help You Achieve Your Financial Goals in Divorce
A Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) is professional who goes through an intensive training program to become skilled in analyzing and providing expertise related to divorce financial planning issues. A CDFA® may act as a consultant and advocate for one party in a divorce or as a financial neutral who provides services to both parties.
A CDFA®-Mediator is a trained mediator who has obtained training and certification as a CDFA®. She conducts sophisticated and thorough financial analysis to produce alternative settlement scenarios to best meet the goals and objectives of the two parties. She may also be trained as a divorce coach who can guide you in developing an effective parenting plan that meets the needs of the entire family and ensures happiness and security for the children.
In How Many Ways Can We Help Optimize YOUR Financial Future?
Child Support and Alimony
Child support is based on your state’s formulas, but it’s not as straight-forward as you may think. Are you sure your accounting for all available income and covering all your children’s needs?
Alimony, too, is largely discretionary and causes significant angst to both the payor and payee. What is the right amount? What about an alimony buyout?
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Marital Home
One of you wants to keep the marital home but can’t afford it or refinance.
Retirement Savings
What’s the most efficient way to divide retirement savings? Will you need a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)?
Taxes
Two seemingly equivalent assets may not be alike. Ensure your settlement considers tax implications.
Risk Management
How can you best plan for the possiblity of future disability, death, or bankruptcy and the impact it may have on you or your children?
College Funding
College costs can be affected by your divorce settlement. Minimize them now while you have the chance. Even if your state doesn’t obligate parents to fund college expenses, you can build it into a mediated settlement agreement.
Pension Valuation
Most divorce attorneys can’t correctly value pensions and instead rely on valuations by outside experts whose costs will be passed onto you. We regularly value corporate, military, and government pensions and can include the valuation in our fixed fee.
Financial Projections
Evaluate how various settlement options will affect your financial health one, five, ten, twenty years from now.
Owned Businesses and Rental Properties
Value your businesses accurately without spending a fortune.
Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units
Properly value and divide your stock options and RSU’s to ensure fairness in the division of assets. How can these be divided to minimize taxes and risk?
Hidden Assets
Are there assets you’re not aware of? Make sure these are taken into account.
Cash Flow and Budgeting
Understand how your settlement will affect your standard of living and ability to pay your bills.
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