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So money episode 14-11, financial infidelity, the cost of divorce, and what all spouses need to know

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What am I talking about when I say financial infidelity? It might be spending outside of our

agreements that we've made about spending. It might be secret spending. It might be wasting money.

It might be what I call sex drugs and rock and roll.

Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnoosh Karabi, a special episode today where we're going to

talk about the deep and dark of money. When your spouse is committing financial infidelity,

when you're thinking about getting a divorce, but you want to protect yourself financially first.

When you're a stay-at-home parent or a stay-at-home spouse,

I need to learn more about the financial dealings in your marriage and not

sure how to broach the subject. Our guest today is Tracy Conan. She's a forensic accountant

who's been investigating fraud for more than 25 years. She started with a dream of one day being

a prison warden. So she got a criminology degree, but then a class on financial crime schemes

reminded her how much she loved detective work as a kid. So she continued her criminology

degree at an accounting to it and economics and sat for the CPA exam. And now she is finding money

in cases of corporate fraud, high net worth divorce, and other financial shenanigans as she calls

them. I don't know if your spouse is committing financial infidelity, what does that even mean?

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