Compact Disc

The Emotions of Family Finances: Finessing Fear, Formulas and Fairness
Daniel G. Cantone, JD; Jill E. Engle, JD; Lisa Herrick, PhD and Lonnie Broussard, CDFA™, CFP ®
(90-minute)

With ever-popular legislative child support and spousal maintenance "guidelines", special challenges exist for Collaborative practitioners. Spouses and professionals alike grapple with formulaic "entitlements", competing fears over sufficiency of post-separation lifestyles and overall ability to pay, assessing ultimate fairness in the outcome, and bringing long-term finality to a mutual accord. This multi-jurisdictional panel will address successful techniques to assist settlement teams in arriving at support commitments that recognize legal mandates yet maintain case-by-case flexibility tailored to individual family financial circumstances.