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You signed the papers. You split the assets. You moved on.
And then tax season hit.
Most people going through a divorce are so focused on the emotional weight of it that the financial decisions get made on autopilot. Filing status. Who claims the kids. How the retirement accounts get divided. Nobody stops to ask what any of it actually costs after taxes.
That's the conversation Jamie Lima and I had this week. And it's one you need to hear.
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The Real Moment
By the time most people realize taxes were part of the equation, the decisions are already made and locked in. Jamie breaks down what's actually happening right now in divorce cases during tax season, why the professionals involved often don't catch it, and who's getting hurt the most.
The Noise vs. Truth
We go through three takes that will change how you think about:
Filing jointly in the final year
Who actually has the right to claim the kids
What your attorney told you about the asset split
Some of what's treated as common knowledge in divorce is flat out wrong. Jamie names it directly.
The Expert Lens
Jamie covers the QDRO, pension valuations, and a real client situation with a business, three properties, and a distribution that showed up after the divorce was already final.
Here's the part that stopped me cold.
The number on your pension statement is almost never the real number. The difference in one case can be $200,000 to $400,000. That's not a rounding error. That's a retirement.
The Plan
Jamie lays out specific moves to make in the next 7, 30, and 90 days if you're in the middle of this or just came out the other side. Don't skip this part.
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If this episode hit close to home, don't sit on it.
A client last week found out a pension was undervalued by six figures in their settlement. One conversation changed everything.
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