Divorce Costs $200k! What Women Need To Know - Sarah Bevan

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About the Guest

Sarah Bevan is a seasoned legal professional with a specialty in family law. She holds the position of principal and accredited family law specialist at Sarah Bevan Family Lawyers. With decades of experience under her belt, Sarah is renowned for her ability to navigate the complex emotional and financial terrain of family separations and divorces. Her focus is on helping her clients find resolutions that are legally sound and personally sustainable, ensuring their post-separation lives are well structured.

Key Takeaways:

• Proactive Legal Consultation: Understanding the importance of seeking early legal advice to better prepare for potential separations.
• Challenges of Financial Equality: Discusses the financial disadvantages women often face post-divorce and emphasizes the importance of tailored legal strategies.
• Understanding Prenups and BFAs: Explains the role and potential pitfalls of Binding Financial Agreements and prenups in protecting assets.
• Navigating Emotional and Legal Complexities: Highlights how family law incorporates both legal and emotional aspects and the necessity of handling both with care.
• Separation Statistics Contextualized: Provides an overview of marriage and divorce statistics in Australia, emphasizing the commonality and complexity of separations.

Notable Quotes:

• "Probably the best way of describing what I do when people are separating is trying to help them find their way out of the mud and find a resolution and a way forward that doesn't break them."

• "One of the hardest things is finding out information if from a, an obstinate ex, even though he has the duty of disclosure, everyone does."

• "Everyone has an opinion about family law. Everyone at the school gate, at work."
• "Women just reach a point and it often all sort of coincides very commonly around, you know, sort of perimenopausal women and teenage children. And they just go, I'm done, I've had enough."
• "I need you to put your commercial thinking hat on right now and think Commercially, obviously."

Resources:

• Sarah Bevan Family Lawyers: Sarah Bevan Family Lawyers

 

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