Marriage, it turns out, is even more than hefty emotional commitment, a blending of families, and the awesome chance to add another crazy aunt or uncle to your family tree.

I’ve been a close observer of the way families make, communicate and implement financial decisions for most of the last four decades. I have learned that many people make family wealth and lifestyle planning decisions privately

If you’ve recently been through or are going through a divorce, it’s natural to feel wounded. Your life was once built around another person, the one on which you now cannot rely. That not only hurts, it’s bewildering. The experience often stops people in their tracks as they wonder what went wrong and what they’re going to do. You may be experiencing this right now.