Category Archives: Budgeting

June 1, 2018

Top Tips to help you Thrive Financially

Your divorce is over. It’s time to start sorting through all the things you need to do, to get your financial life in order. Here are just a few tips to help you thrive financially, as you move into this Continue reading…

July 24, 2017

Guiding Your Children Through the Holidays, Post-Divorce

Categories: Budgeting • Children & Money • Children in Divorce • Divorce • Parents

Navigating the holidays post-divorce is a difficult enough task for adults, but it also brings out stress and anxiety in children, whether small or big (adult). We tackled holiday survival post-divorce topics like “finding your new normal” and “creating emotional Continue reading…

May 29, 2017

Teaching Your Kids About Money – Teenagers

Categories: Budgeting • Children & Money • Financial Goals • Parents

Sometimes your teenage children think they know everything. Do they know that if they saved the $6 they spend each day on a super antioxidant smoothie (or caramel macchiato), in 8 years they could buy a 4-door sedan in soul Continue reading…

October 3, 2016

Teaching Your Kids About Money – The Early Years

Categories: Budgeting • Children & Money • Financial Goals • Money and Finances • Parents

What are you teaching your children that will best prepare them for a successful adulthood? To be polite and say thank you? To believe in themselves? How about that if they save 15% of every check they ever earn, they Continue reading…

September 20, 2016

Cooking for One

Categories: Budgeting • Children in Divorce • Divorce • Finances and Divorce • Money and Divorce • Money and Finances • Parents • Separation

You may find cooking a daunting enough task as it is, but cooking for just one can be downright grueling, and can often lead to unhealthy eating. If you find yourself undereating, forgetting to eat, going through the drive thru, Continue reading…

May 16, 2016

Single Parents Often Walk a Financial Tightrope

Categories: Budgeting • Divorce • Finances and Divorce • Money and Finances • Parents • Taxes

Being a single parent demands so much of a person’s time and energy that taking care of longer-term financial concerns often take a back seat. So many single parents face financial restrictions that make it seem they are constantly on Continue reading…

April 13, 2016

Getting Help Following Divorce, Part 2 – How to choose a Financial Planner

Categories: Budgeting • Divorce • Finances and Divorce • Money and Divorce • Money and Finances • Taxes and Divorce

Determining who is best qualified to help you reach your financial goals, understanding what they can do for you, and getting clarity on how they get paid for their services may be a challenge if this is all new to Continue reading…

April 4, 2016

Making Cash Flow, Flow Positively

Categories: Budgeting • Divorce • Finances and Divorce • Money and Divorce • Money and Finances

One of the challenges of divorce is separating income that used to be joint income, along with separating into two households versus one. This is a recipe for cash flow drain for most couples. All of the sudden the same Continue reading…

March 29, 2016

No Fooling! April is Financial Literacy Month

Categories: Budgeting • investing • Money and Finances

Did you know that there is a National Financial Literacy Month?? Well, there is! The powers that be have selected April to be the Financial Literacy Month. Why April rather than July probably goes to the fact that so many Continue reading…

March 15, 2016

Getting Help After Divorce, Part 1 – How Does Financial Planning Work?

Categories: Budgeting • Divorce • Finances and Divorce • investing • Investments and Divorce • Money and Divorce • Money and Finances • Taxes and Divorce

Once you have completed your divorce, the list of things to figure out can be daunting. It can be easy to push off those things that don’t seem to affect your daily routine. Some of those things that you have Continue reading…