Chapter 13: Timing of your break-up is important

Chapter 13: Timing of your break-up is important

As they say on Deal or No Deal(R), this game is about timing and luck. Okay, so it's not much of a game, and over all this really sucks, but it is true there definitely can be winners and losers. Timing for jumping ship is important. Why? One word, Alimony. Do you want to pay for your spouse for the rest of her life well she get a other man, for a next year or like I would expect not at all.

So timing, what about timing. What time, relationship? Occupancy? Marriage? Well states may differ and this is a good point to ask a lawyer. Most importantly the time you are in the relationship floating on a life raft may actually be working against you. For example some judges and states define for the rest of your life keeping her in her same condition after 7 years. That's right 7. You can fall asleep and end-up there. Two years of bliss. Four of building a family and a home and one of pure hell trying to make it work and your there.

There is a reason a lot of marriage give up after 2 years. If no strings attached seems like a good deal, then you know what they were thinking. Don't commingle your funds. Don't make any large purchases with that person and you will find yourself in the seat of power. You still have decision making power.

Next, your credit and the rest of your life may be being effected dramatically if your spouse decided to start maxing out the credit cards and robbing you blind. Well you are married these activities are shielded under your name and even though fraudulent it is impossible to hold them to there activities if your finances are together.

The separation agreement is YOUR the red flag you can throw down. It says you just try and defraud me. Your going to jail and/or your going to pay. We are both aware that we are splitting. If you start pulling money out left and right you are going to be exposed to the full force of the law. No more hiding in the dark and using you name. 

*** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I am not a lawyer and this is not to be construed as legal advice. For any legal decision see the proper legal representative. You are the master of your soul.