Get Off Your Assets

Neale S. Godfrey

doi:10.5771/9781538187944

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-8793-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-8794-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 252
Product type: Book Titles

1. Cover No access
2. Dedication No access
3. Contents No access
4. Preface No access
1. 1. Quiz: Are You Ready for a Gray Divorce? No access
2. 1. Weird Reasons for Divorce That Should Make You Feel Sane No access
3. Chapter 3: A Leopard Can Change His Spots No access
4. 1. Back to the Future No access
  2. 1. How to Look at the Quiz No access
  3. Financial Infidelity No access
5. 1. Breaking up Is Hard to Do No access
  2. Lots of Rules and Steps No access
6. 1. Men Are the Breadwinners No access
  2. Women Are Pulled in So Many Directions No access
  3. Gender Disparity Is Alive and Well No access
  4. We Have Come a Short Way, Baby No access
  5. The Secret to Long Life: Dump Him No access
  6. Pink, Blue, and Beyond No access
  7. Scarlett O’Hara Should Be Gone with the Wind No access
  8. Ignore Those “Friends” Who Want to Give You Advice No access
  9. The Grass May Not Be Greener on the Other Side of the Fence No access
7. 1. Marriage or Living Together? No access
  2. Change Your Job Description No access
1. 1. Completing Incompletions No access
  2. Sock-It-to-Me! No access
  3. Rewrite Your Story No access
  4. 1. Results: No access
2. 1. 1. Results: No access
  2. Okay, I Know My Financial Personality, Now What? No access
3. Chapter 10: Building Financial Security to Let You Sleep at Night No access
4. Chapter 11: No Magic Money Log No access
5. 1. Your Monthly Budget No access
  2. Savings Will Save You No access
  3. Put the Squeeze on Expenses No access
  4. Drip, Drip, Drip of Small Savings No access
6. 1. Your Wish List No access
7. 1. Detanglement List No access
  2. More Paperwork No access
  3. List of Documents for Your Kids and Loved Ones No access
  4. Your Home No access
  5. Credit Reports No access
8. 1. Why Does My FICO Score Matter? No access
  2. 1. Credit Utilization Ratio No access
    2. Debt-to-Income Ratio (DTI) No access
  3. 1. Credit Card Debt Ratio No access
  4. 1. 1. Secured Credit Card No access
    2. Loans No access
9. Chapter 16: Put Together Team-You No access
10. 1. 1. What Mediation Looks Like No access
  2. Story: Beware of Professional Tans No access
  3. 1. “Oops, I Did It Again” No access
    2. Interview, Interview, Interview No access
  4. 1. Basic Personal Information No access
    2. More Information to Bring No access
11. 1. 1. 1. What Is a Financial Advisor? No access
    2. 2. Determine What the Money Is For No access
    3. 3. Consider Why You Need a Financial Advisor No access
    4. 4. Get to Know Your Financial Self No access
    5. 5. Risk Tolerance No access
    6. 6. You’re a Client, Not a Customer No access
    7. 7. The Best Things in Life Are (Not) Free No access
    8. 8. Verify Credentials and Ensure Goals Align No access
    9. 9. Comfort Is Key No access
12. 1. 1. Income and Tax Documents No access
    2. Real Estate Documents No access
    3. Personal Property Information No access
    4. Financial Information No access
    5. Estate-Planning Documents No access
  2. 1. 1. Check up on Your Credit Report No access
    2. 2. Sign Up for a Credit-Monitoring Service No access
    3. 3. Open New Credit Cards in Your Name Only No access
    4. 4. Apply for a Secured Credit Card No access
    5. 5. Close All Your Joint Accounts No access
    6. 6. Close Joint Investment Accounts No access
    7. 7. Pay Your Bills No access
    8. 8. Divide the Credit Card Debt No access
  3. 1. US State Laws No access
    2. Foreign Laws No access
13. 1. Money Mistakes You Can Make in a Gray Divorce No access
  2. 1. Story No access
    2. Gray Divorce Money Mistake #4 No access
    3. Who Is Eligible? No access
    4. How Do You Enroll? No access
    5. Can You Have an HSA (Health Savings Account) with Medicare? No access
    6. What Does Medicare Cost? No access
    7. Gray Divorce Money Mistake #5 No access
    8. Gray Divorce Money Mistake #6 No access
    9. Gray Divorce Money Mistake #7 No access
14. 1. “Remember the Alimony” No access
  2. 1. Permanent Alimony No access
    2. Story No access
15. 1. 1. Inheritances No access
    2. Social Security No access
    3. 1. Look Closely at the Premium Increases No access
    4. Long-Term Health Care Insurance No access
    5. 1. Terms You Will Need to Understand When Looking at Pensions/Retirement Plans No access
    6. Tax Considerations No access
  2. This can all be taxing No access
  3. Are You Staying Together Because You Are Terrified to Lose Health Insurance? No access
1. 1. Your Choice No access
  2. Things I Can Now Do That I Don’t Have to Worry About No access
2. 1. How Serious Is This? No access
  2. 1. College Loans before You Got Married No access
    2. College Loans after You Got Married No access
    3. Loans to Friends and Family No access
    4. Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act No access
    5. Medical Debt No access
    6. What Can Be Done? No access
  3. 1. Problems with Some Solutions No access
    2. The Debt Dig-Out after Divorce No access
    3. 1. Debt-Consolidation Loans No access
3. 1. Rate-and-Term Refinance No access
  2. Here Are Some Pros and Cons No access
4. 1. What Is a Reverse Mortgage?1 No access
5. 1. How to Stop the Money FOG No access
  2. Stop It! No access
  3. Financial Stress Is Alive but Not So Well No access
  4. Getting Your Act Together No access
  5. Misery Loves Company No access
  6. Tips to Deal with How to Get Credit Card Debt Under Control No access
6. Chapter 28: Never Own Anything Bigger Than Your Hat No access
7. 1. 1. Life Goals No access
8. 1. Mapping Your Goals No access
  2. Your Choices No access
  3. What Does Financial Independence Look Like? No access
  4. I Can Have the Talks with My Family and Loved Ones No access
  5. Your Money Map No access
9. 1. The Big Deal about Investing No access
  2. Time Is Your Friend (or Your Kid’s) No access
10. 1. Have Confidence No access
  2. What You Shouldn’t Do No access
11. 1. Don’t Let Tying the Knot Tie You in Knots: Your Prenup No access
  2. You Cancelled the Romance No access
  3. When Do You Need a Prenup? No access
  4. “I Do” Can Equal “I Due” No access
  5. What Does a Prenup Cost? No access
  6. Oops, I Forgot to Tell Her No access
  7. Prenup Topics You Should be Prepared to Discuss No access
  8. When Should You Get a Prenup? No access
  9. 1. Prenup Marriage Money Mistake #1 No access
    2. Prenup Marriage Money Mistake #2 No access
    3. Prenup Marriage Money Mistake #3 No access
    4. Prenup Marriage Money Mistake #4 No access
  10. 1. Basic Elements of a Prenup No access
  11. The Tough Conversation: How to Talk about Getting a Prenup No access
12. 1. Interesting Ways to Donate No access
13. 1. Pay It Forward No access
14. Chapter 36: When Your Kids Are Concerned, Can You Step Away from Your Wallet? No access
15. 1. Setup a Lease with Your Adult Children No access
  2. Why the Lease? No access
  3. Worksheet for Soon-to-Be Parental Landlords No access
16. Chapter 38: The End or New Beginning? No access
Notes No access Pages 211 - 228
Bibliography No access Pages 229 - 240
Index No access Pages 241 - 252