{"id":331681,"date":"2025-12-05T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331681\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:22:16","slug":"divorce-after-50-creates-wealth-adviser-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331681\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce After 50 Creates Wealth Adviser Windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">When Betsy Goldstein began divorce proceedings at age 53, she found herself confronting a complex web of tax forms, retirement accounts and housing deeds \u2014 financial matters she hadn\u2019t bothered with during more than two decades of marriage. As if that weren\u2019t enough, it was 2020, the pandemic was in full force and the stakes were suddenly high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cI really needed hand-holding,\u201d she recalls. A mediator suggested she hire a specialist \u2014 not just a financial adviser, but one trained to handle the dollars-and-cents details of divorce. That brought her to Geoffrey Burroughs, a certified divorce financial analyst, or CDFA. Over Zoom, they worked through her expected expenses and built a post-divorce budgetary blueprint. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Betsy Goldstein began divorce proceedings at age 53, she found herself confronting a complex web of tax&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[167994,19603,28,107123,110,299,9746,167995,112,8640,147,530,167993,1432,3643],"class_list":["post-331681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-american-association-of-retired-persons","tag-baby-boomers","tag-business","tag-cerulli-associates","tag-economics","tag-food","tag-law","tag-lorraine-r-salvo","tag-markets","tag-maryland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-tax-code","tag-wealth","tag-wealth-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}