You Can’t Afford Not to Fight: Funding Your Divorce When the Money Is Gone
You Can’t Afford Not to Fight: Funding Your Divorce When the Money Is Gone When my husband left, I discovered he had been quietly moving money into a personal account I knew nothing about. The only money I had was an inheritance from my parents, and he had been draining that without my knowledge. What little remained became the only reason I could afford to fight, and without it I would have walked away with nothing. No settlement. No alimony. No justice. Just nothing. I was afraid, and I did not know my options. What I did not realize then is that options existed. More options than I ever knew. I have talked to so many women who were in the same position. Women who spent decades building a home, raising children, and supporting a family, only to find themselves with no personal income, no money in their own name, and no idea how they were going to pay for a divorce attorney. I spoke with one woman in her 70s whose husband left her with almost nothing. She talked about the very r...
