Financial
Understand your financial position after separation with clear guidance on budgeting, maintenance, pensions, and benefits. Learn how to rebuild financial security and plan for your future independently.
How Divorce Affects a Pension
What are the biggest assets a couple have? There’s property, of course, which remains the biggest of all. But after that, for most couples, come pensions,...
How Does Alimony and Child Support Work?
After divorce it's not uncommon for one party to have to pay alimony or spousal support and child support. In most instances, but not always, it will be the...
How Financial Planning Can Help For the Future
Financial planning might be the very last thing on your mind after a breakup – simply keeping your head above water financially can take all your time and...
Learning to Save Money Again Following a Separation
Saving money is important for several reasons. Not only does it mean you have a reserve of money – and who knows when an emergency might happened? – but...
Life as a Working Single Parent
It probably isn’t how you expected your life to end up but if life as a working single parent is your new reality, then you need to do the best you can. Ju...
Making A Budget When You Are On Your Own
Except for a rare few, money is tight for everyone in the wake of a separation and divorce. Instead of running one household on two incomes, there are now tw...
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Your Finances?
Money makes the world go round but if your partner has been dealing with the finances, then you may not know how it turns. When you are facing separation you...
Recently Separated: Financial Checklist
When you separate from a live-in partner it is not only your emotions that take a battering. When you have been used to surviving on two incomes, your financ...
Sending Cards When Recently Separated
There are so many ‘firsts’ when you’re recently separated that it can seem as though the difficulty is never ending. But the truth is that with each �...
The Importance of Good Credit Following a Separation
These days the idea of paying for everything in cash has largely fallen by the wayside. We’re a country that runs on credit. We make monthly payments on ou...
Understanding the Stages of Acceptance
Although it won’t necessarily help you to heal any faster, understanding the different stages of your likely emotions following recent reparation can certa...
What is a Legal Separation?
In England and Wales all that is required for a legal separation is that both partners live apart. The courts don’t need to get involved. In fact it can ev...
What to Do About Your Debts
The biggest single contributor to debt in Britain is divorce. According to statistic, divorce and separation is a much bigger factor than bereavement, ill he...