How Marriage, Divorce & Death Affects Your Dinero | Genoveva Meza-Talbott, Esq., Meza Talbott Law

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Jannese Torres

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4.9 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Episode 95 is all about prenups, the real cost of divorce, estate planning and more.

Genoveva Meza-Talbott has been a practicing attorney in Southern California since 2003. In 2018, she founded Meza Talbott Law, a family law and estate planning firm. She is also the founder of www.TheLawUnbundled.com, an online platform for delivery of unbundled family law legal services.

Genoveva received a J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law & a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in Political Science and minored in French. She is admitted to the State Bar of California and the United States District Court, Central District of California.

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In Episode 95, Genoveva talks about:

The real life implications of marriage
The conversations you should have with your partner, before marriage
Breaking down the different ways to prepare around death
How to find a reputable attorney

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0:00.0	24,000 is the average. And people are shocked when they see that. But when I say that, I always have to
0:06.8	say, that's the average. Like for me and my experience, a divorce that is contested, which means
0:11.7	people aren't agreeing to things, right? Because if people agree, you're talking $4,000. People agree,
0:16.3	it's so much easier. But let's assume they're not agreeing on this or that. And the divorce takes like
0:20.8	two years. They're not wealthy people. They both work. W-2. They have two kids, a house, two cars.
0:27.2	That's an easy, a $50,000 case.
0:32.7	You're listening to Yo Quiero Dinoero, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina. I'm your host, Janice Torres, award-winning Latina personal finance expert. I didn't always have my financial shit together, but when I started looking for POC-friendly personal finance podcasts, I couldn't find any. And so Yo Chiro Dineiro was born. On this show, I'll show you how to make Dineiro, how to keep your Dinero, and most importantly, how to make it grow. Each week, I'm connecting you with the most brilliant minds in the world of money and business. So you can learn about investing, entrepreneurship, and building wealth. The best part, I'm dishing up all this knowledge with a sassy side of
1:11.9	sazon. So if you're ready to be Poderosa with your Dinerro, you've come to the right
1:16.5	place. Let's dive in. Hello, my gente. Welcome back to another episode of Yo Kiro Dinerro the
1:24.3	podcast. This is your host, Janice, and you're listening to episode 95, how marriage, divorce,
1:30.6	and death affects your dinero with family law attorney Geneviva Meza Talbot.
1:36.1	In today's episode, we're going to be talking about the things that nobody wants to talk about,
1:40.5	right?
1:40.9	Nobody wants to talk about getting divorced.
1:42.6	And nobody wants to talk about dying. and nobody wants to talk about dying now you
1:45.2	have a 50% chance of getting divorced when you get married and you have a 100% chance of dying
1:52.4	because nobody's figured out the fountain of youth so these are both things that are very likely
1:59.5	if not 100% certain to happen to you at some
2:03.7	point in your life. And it's important to know how we can prevent these very common life
2:10.9	occurrences from derailing our wealth building journeys. So whether you are newly engaged, you are already married, maybe you've got a
2:20.9	couple of kids. We got to talk about things like prenuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements,
2:27.6	estate planning, what happens when you get divorced, how much it costs to get divorced?
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