Guides

• Is your state a 50/50 divorce state?

  Community property or equitable distribution, and whether the law starts from half each, for all 50 states and DC.

• Dividing a 401(k), IRA or pension

  The court order a 401(k) or pension needs, why an IRA is split differently, and the 10% penalty exception you can lose by moving money too soon.

• Social Security on an ex-spouse's record

  Ten years of marriage, age 62, not remarried: the rules for claiming on a former spouse's record, what it pays and what it does not take from them.