The Most Expensive Mistakes You Can Make in a Divorce

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  Here's your money briefing for Tuesday, June 10th.

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  I'm Julia Carpenter for The Wall Street Journal.

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  There are a lot of things to consider when paying for a divorce.

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  Digging up hidden assets, accounting for legal fees,

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  calculating the cost of life as a single person,

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  and there's also a lot of room for emotions to get in the way.

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  You have to think about the fact that this is a process that could end up causing you financial harm

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  if you don't think through some of the consequences of how you're coming at the whole issue.

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  And if you don't think through the fact that the person you were going to be post-divorce is not the same as the person you were who got married.

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  But luckily, there are ways to prevent these mistakes before they happen.

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  We'll talk with Wall Street Journal contributor Joanne S. Lublin about what you need to know to avoid these divorce-related money pitfalls.

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  That's after the break.

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  Divorce can be painful and expensive,

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  but if you're able to take lessons from other couples' costly mistakes,

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  you can hopefully minimize the financial strain.

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  WSJ contributor Joanne S. Lublin joins me to talk more.

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  Joanne, you interviewed a variety of lawyers and financial professionals for your story,

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  which is linked in our show notes.

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  I'm curious what they had to say.

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  Why is divorce such a high-cost enterprise?

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