Financial Support
Forensic Accountant
A forensic accountant can help trace hidden assets and give you a better chance of getting a fair settlement. Your lawyer should have a skilled forensic accountant on his team.
Planning Your Future
Consult with a financial planner, estate planner, accountant, and portfolio manager to begin planning a secure financial future for yourself and your children.
You can start to set money aside secretly--for example, by overpaying for groceries to get “cash back” and putting the difference in a separate account with your name on it. It will be useful to have a credit card in your own name as well to start building your own credit rating. It will be difficult to rent anywhere without having some kind of credit.
Economic Empowerment Strategies for Women
Created by Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS), this online course that offers a range of information from fundamentals of money and financial management principles to financial planning. It is divided into five separate modules. Click here for more.
The Purple Purse Moving Ahead Curriculum
The Allstate Foundation developed the Purple Purse Moving Ahead Curriculum in partnership with the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and it has been academically validated by Rutgers University. The information in this course is intended to be general advice for those in an abusive relationship. It’s fully web-based and modular and covers everything from understanding financial abuse to mastering credit basics, building financial foundations and budgeting. Click here for more.
Survive Divorce
WomenSV’s Executive Director, Ruth Darlene, joined Jason Crowley for an interview about financial abuse in relationships. Read it here: https://www.survivedivorce.com/financial-abuse-marriage
Here is an informational resource about divorce financial planning: https://www.survivedivorce.com/financial-planning
For more information about recovering from financial abuse, visit https://www.survivedivorce.com/.
Coerced Debt, Financial Abuse and California Law
Visit this link for more information: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB975/id/2599770#:~:text=This%20bill%20would%20require%20a,review%2C%20as%20defined%20and%20specified
FINANCIAL ABUSE TOOLKIT
Learn how to recognize the signs of financial abuse and what you can do about it with this Financial Abuse Toolkit.