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WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Most Expensive Mistakes You Can Make in a Divorce

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Divorce brings out strong emotions — and sometimes, that means less-than-perfect financial judgment. Host Julia Carpenter talks with WSJ contributor Joann S. Lublin to learn how you can avoid five of the costliest divorce mistakes.  Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your money briefing for Tuesday, June 10th. I'm Julia Carpenter for the Wall Street Journal.

0:43.6

There are a lot of things to consider when paying for a divorce.

0:47.7

Digging up hidden assets, accounting for legal fees, calculating the cost of life as a single person,

0:57.8

and there's also a lot of room for emotions to get in the way.

1:13.2

You have to think about the fact that this is a process that could end up causing you financial harm if you don't think through some of the consequences of how you're coming at the whole issue. And if you don't think through the fact that the person you were going to be

1:19.5

post-divorce is not the same as the person you were who got married. But luckily, there are

1:26.4

ways to prevent these mistakes before they happen.

1:29.7

We'll talk with Wall Street Journal contributor Joanne S. Lublin about what you need to know

1:34.4

to avoid these divorce-related money pitfalls.

1:37.8

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