Divorce can often be an emotional experience for everyone involved, but if the individuals involved are not careful, more than their emotions could be impacted. Divorce can sometimes damage a person’s finances along with their emotional life, and even hurt the individual’s credit if they are not careful. However, if Florida residents take certain precautionary steps, they could more easily save their credit from harm.
The first thing that an individual may need to do is find out their credit report, which is not difficult as there are numerous online companies that will help. Then a person may want to organize the information linked to their various accounts. This could include the name of the creditor, the account number and the balance.
Once this has been completed, the individual may want to close any joint accounts that have a balance of zero. They could then freeze the joint accounts with a balance so they cannot be charged. This could help prevent the credit of an individual being ruined as well as helping financially as a whole.
Divorce is never an easy process, and can even make those involved to do things that they do not consider normal. However, if Florida residents take these steps to protect their credit, it could prevent any rash financial decisions being made by either side in an act of spite. This could allow the divorce process to be shortened greatly, as neither side would be able to do major financial damage to the credit of the other participant.
Source: jacksonville.com, “Damage control: How to protect your credit during a divorce”, Davis Wakefield, Aug. 22, 2014
Source: jacksonville.com, “Damage control: How to protect your credit during a divorce”, Davis Wakefield, Aug. 22, 2014
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