To prepare yourself financially for a divorce, it's crucial to separate your finances from your spouse, understand your financial situation, create a budget, gather financial documents, review your estate plan, and potentially establish a new bank account are also essential steps.

Revenge spending and emotional financial decisions. How emotions drives spending, selling assets or refusing to cooperate financially.

Here’s a breakdown of revenge spending and emotion-driven financial decisions and how they impact financial stability:

Financial infidelity in a marriage—things like hidden debt, secret spending, or undisclosed investments—often comes to light during divorce, and it can have serious emotional and legal consequences. Here’s how these financial secrets are usually uncovered in the divorce process:

What happens if one spouse refuses to sell the marital home? When you are going through a divorce and you are at the stage of dividing the assets and property, sometimes you are not both in agreement to sell the marital home. There are several options available to you when the other spouse refuses to sell the home.

Divorcing when both spouses co-own and work in the same business can be especially complex. Unlike other marital assets, a business is not just a financial entity—it’s often deeply tied to identity, livelihood, and long-term goals. When a couple decides to separate, figuring out what happens to the family business requires careful legal, financial, and emotional considerations.

In British Columbia, if an inheritance is used to buy a family home, it can become family property and be subject to division during divorce — even though inheritances are typically excluded from division.