(Updated 2018)
Prepare Your Finances—For Better and For WorseThis unique book explores an overlooked but pivotal truth: Divorce is a financial planning issue. All too often, people willingly enter into marriage without even discussing our investments, obligations, income, budget, or the impact a divorce might have on our financial futures. Why would we taint our special day by talking about money when there are caterers to hire and dicey family dynamics to manage?
Both men and women think marriage is supposed to be about trust, love, and romance. And it is. But we are ignoring and important reality. The current divorce rate is about fifty percent. In I Now Pronounce You Financially Fit, Pam Friedman talks about this financial elephant in the room. In marriage, as Friedman explains, it is never too late to protect our money from the financial devastation of divorce. And if divorce is unavoidable, her advice can help us through that too.
Pam Friedman uses her twenty-plus years of experience in financial planning and investing to advise us about how to address our finances as couples. By being sensible, informed, and realistic, we can prevent many of the financial problems that cause divorce—or that divorce can cause.
Read this book and let Pam Friedman help you discover your happily ever after.
Pam Friedman is a Certified Financial Planner™ professional and Certified Divorce Financial AnalystŪ. She is founder of Divorce Planning of Austin and co-founder of Silicon Hills Wealth Management. Her particular area of expertise is marital financial planning which includes planning for the risk of divorce and educating clients who may be unfamiliar with financial issues and investing during and after divorce.
She has been featured in national publications and on- air with New York Times, NY Daily News, Elle Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, Self Magazine, Estate Planning Magazine, ABC News Radio, Daily Finance (AOL), and the Divorce Financial Analyst Journal. She is a founding member of The Center for Integrated Divorce, an Austin, Texas based network of mediators and other consultative professionals in divorce. She is a trained family law mediator and a trained financial neutral for collaborative divorce cases and a member of Collaborative Divorce Texas.
She holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. She has worked as an investment banker, specializing in middle-market lending and private equity in New York, served as executive director of high-yield bonds in for an elite firm in London, and taught graduate-level investment management courses for several years at her alma mater. Most recently, Pam was recognized as a Finalist for Austin Woman Magazine's Woman's Way Business Awards and a Nominee for both Austin Business Journal's Profiles in Power and Investment News' Women to Watch.
Drawing from her extensive experience, spanning nearly 30 years in the industry, Pam advises clients on how to address finances as a couple. By being sensible, informed, and realistic, couples can prevent many of the financial problems that cause divorce--or that divorce can cause.
