re: Life changes quick

I’d agree, this needs to be required reading, from my personal experience I’d put #10 as #2 but other than that it’s a good list. My reason, based on my past, is that if you don’t file for legal separation, your wife or husband whichever the case, can run up purchases on credit cards, drain joint bank accounts and acquire loans which means you will be legally responsible for half the debt, once a legal separation is filed, this stops. This can be financially disastrous regardless of whether the couple goes through with a divorce or works things out and stay together.