Most of the people asking divorce questions are women. This page is for you.

Build two budgets: the household as it is, and yours alone with realistic housing. Colorado’s maintenance guideline gives you a starting number for support if the marriage lasted three years and combined income is under $240,000; child support is a separate worksheet. Then price housing honestly. The formula.

If a lender will approve you alone at today’s rate, or the decree lets you stay until a trigger date with everything written down. A joint $1,572 payment from 2021 becomes a solo $3,400 payment at today’s rates on the same house; that is the number to look at before the promise. The buyout math.

No. Once the case is filed and served, the automatic injunction bars it without your written consent or a court order, and both owners have to sign a deed anyway. What the injunction covers.

No. Neither of you has to leave unless a court orders exclusive possession. Talk to an attorney before you leave voluntarily.

Twenty-two percent of divorced women in the same survey had handed all finances to their husband. Start with the checklist: three years of tax returns, every statement, the deed and the mortgage. The sworn financial statement is due within 42 days of the case starting anyway. The checklist.

Yes, with the decree, six months of receipts (three for FHA on court-ordered support) and at least three years left to run. Forty-two percent of women receiving support have no plan for when it ends; the lender’s three-year test is a good forcing function. Buying on one income.

Open your own checking account and one card now. Freeze all three bureaus. Watch the joint mortgage every month until it is out of your name; one 30-day late by him costs you about 100 points too. The full list.

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