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"Forbes is running an article today about the five ways divorce takes your money. Tell me about it. They list: 1. The cost of legal assistance - a definite huge issue for me. He&amp;#039;s the one with all the money to pay a lawyer, and until he pays a lawyer, nothings getting done. It&amp;#039;s frustrating in the extreme. 2. Childcare expenditures - the unexpected things, especially. Peter pays me child support every month, and if I hit him up in advance, he&amp;#039;s pretty good about paying for things like sports programs, camp, piano lessons, etc. It&amp;#039;s the spur-of-the-moment stuff that gets me. Things like taking a sick kid to the doctor and having a co-pay (or worse, to the E.R. where the co-pay is enormous), last minute reminders about lunch money accounts being low or field trip fees that are due that day, and outings to the movies, etc. with their friends. It&amp;#039;s a little bit here and a little bit there and it all adds up. I&amp;#039;m also the one who bears the burden of most of that. 3. Taxes - filing single could mean I lose some important deductions and credits, which translates into higher taxes for me. Swell. 4. Losing out on the retirement nest egg - This one won&amp;#039;t affect me as much, since we weren&amp;#039;t too great in this area to begin with. Still, retiring on two 401k&amp;#039;s and two Social Security checks is a bit easier than doing it on one, I&amp;#039;m sure. 5. Insurance needs - this is the only area they covered that I lucked out in. My company has excellent insurance benefits (at a really reasonable cost), and I carried the plan for me and the kids to begin with. I know a lot of women who weren&amp;#039;t that lucky, and purchasing private insurance can be a staggering cost. I can think of a good dozen other ways that divorce ends up taking your money. Therapists, gas in the car as you drive to and from kid dropoffs and pick-ups, lost time from work to cover sick days for the kids that your spouse used to be able to cover, the list goes on and on. And it never seems to end, does it? Were you surprised by how much your divorce cost you, and continues to cost? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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