- The Hidden Costs of Traditional Litigation: Attendees will receive details about adversarial courtroom battles and their drain on vital retirement assets; trapping couples in destructive conflict. Resolving disputes outside of family court keeps sensitive personal and financial information confidential.

- The Power of a "Closed System": Information about the structured mediated-arbitration process, which enables couples to settle disputes entirely outside the public courtroom. Relying on private arbitration as a backstop provides predictability and removes the threat of surprise court filings.

- Leading with Financial Clarity: Partnering with a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA) early provides clear projections for dividing complex retirement assets before legal negotiations begin. Establishing transparency upfront eliminates panic and enables rational decision-making.

- Safeguarding Relationships with Adult Children: Discuss actionable boundaries parents should create to avoid leaning on adult children for emotional or financial support during the split. Resolving the marriage quietly ensures family dynamics remain healthy for major milestones like weddings and grandchildren.

- "Divorcing Strong" with Dignity: Attendees learn how to complete the dissolution process while keeping their core values, identity, and dignity intact. The session provides practical strategies to engage a reluctant spouse by focusing on mutual protection, time savings, and lower costs.

1. Keeping the marital home and how to achieve that.

2. Selling the marital home and what that entails.

3. Timing the sale around the divorce process.

4. Why working with a divorce specialist matters

• A framework for the keep, sell, or buy decision.

• An understanding of how to qualify for a mortgage on your own after divorce.

• Inherent risks that exist in every divorce when real property is involved.

• Knowledge of the timing and sequencing mistakes to avoid.

-How to feel like yourself again. Learn to use joy as your compass, the signal that cuts through the noise and points you back to what lights you up.

-The secret to clarity without overthinking. Stop forcing answers and learn how alignment brings the next right step to you, with more ease and far less effort.

-How to turn an ending into your most alive chapter yet. Leave with a practical joy reset you can use right away, and a new vision of what your life can feel like now that it's yours again.

-How travel can become your biggest ROI. And how to navigate traveling alone post-divorce.

Explore Rewirement as an opportunity to intentionally shape what comes next.

Identify what matters most to you and what you want more of in your life.

Discover how The Rewirement Path can help you turn your aspirations into a personal direction.

Make room for curiosity, possibility, and new experiences.

Leave with a practical first step toward designing your next chapter.

Understand the true financial value of a divorce settlement — and why two assets with the same dollar value may have very different tax, liquidity, and long-term implications.

Evaluate major decisions involving the family home, retirement accounts, Social Security, and cash flow before agreeing to a settlement.

Avoid common financial mistakes driven by emotion or urgency and identify the questions to ask before making decisions that may be difficult to change later.

Build a post-divorce financial plan designed around income, lifestyle, retirement, and the life they want to create next.

• Why fear and assumptions about divorce can keep women stuck—and how getting informed can change the conversation

• Why you don’t necessarily need an attorney to get divorced—and why you can still have your own attorney if you want one

• Why you don’t necessarily have to sell your real estate just because you’re getting divorced

• How to protect your relationship with your adult children without putting them in the middle or asking them to choose sides

• Why you don’t have to be friends—or agree on everything—to successfully mediate your divorce

• How mediation gives both people a voice and the opportunity to shape what comes next

• Why the end of a marriage does not have to mean the end of your family—it may simply look different

Why Washington is different — community vs. separate property, and why the distinction matters more the longer you’ve been married.

The long-marriage rule most people don’t know — courts may aim to leave both spouses on roughly equal financial footing, and “equitable” does not mean “equal.”

Retirement is the main event — dividing 401(k)s, pensions, and IRAs; the premarital portion vs. the marital portion; why a QDRO matters.

How “separate” quietly becomes “shared” — the jointly-titled house, the inheritance dropped into a joint account, the premarital account with no paper trail.

Spousal maintenance near retirement — how courts weigh need and ability to pay when earning years are ending.

(Bonus) What outlives the divorce — updating beneficiaries, wills, and estate documents; Social Security ex-spouse benefits after a 10+ year marriage.

(Bonus) What to do now — the documentation habits that protect you, whether divorce is years off or already underway.

Kick Off Call

• Why your attorney, financial professionals and other experts each have an important role, and where a coach fits in so you’re supported through everything else
• How a plan and a clear sense of what you want help you get more from every professional on your team, and save time, money and stress
• The human side of divorce, communicating with your spouse, your children whether young or grown, and your friends and family
• How to use The Intentional Divorce Guide and Planner to get your bearings and know which questions to ask
• How The Threshold gives you weekly coaching and a community of women at every stage of divorce

What actually happens in a first consultation, and what someone should bring

How to tell whether an attorney is the right fit, and what to ask

What an attorney can and cannot do, and who else belongs around the table

What you see people decide early that costs them later

Attendees will learn:

1) How different filing statuses can impact divorce

2) How to approach asset division and its tax consequences

3) IRS Debt and Divorce - How to Resolve Tax Debt

4) Innocent Spouse - What it is and When to File

5) Avoiding Common Tax Pitfalls Pertaining to Gray Divorce

1. Why starting negotiations before you understand the financial picture can lead to expensive mistakes.

2. How financial analysis and divorce coaching work together to prepare people for better settlement conversations.

3. Why communication patterns often drive financial conflict, even when the argument looks like it is about money.

4. How an interdisciplinary team can help couples stay focused without taking decision making away from them.

5. Why testing settlement options against real post-divorce cash flow matters before anyone signs an agreement.