Legal, money & home

Find the next practical step.

The practical side arrives at the same moment as the grief: lawyers, money, the house, where everyone lives. Big decisions often get made while you can’t think straight. Keeping the emotion and the business apart is one of the most useful things you can do for yourself, and for everyone else involved.

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Our approach.

Plain-language explanations that orient you, with a steady principle underneath: be fair to yourself and fair to them. Each piece says clearly when it’s time for an attorney, a mediator or a financial professional.

This is general information, not legal or financial advice.

What happens inside

The Legal & money pathSome important steps on your guided path:

  1. Separating logistics from emotions
  2. Ways to divorce
  3. Fair negotiation
  4. Untangling finances
  5. Leaving or staying in the marital home
  6. Where everyone lives
  7. Scarcity versus abundance
  8. High conflict

For the record: a private, dated log in Notes, yours alone, to share with your attorney or mediator if you need it.

Short guides on mediation versus litigation, nesting and living under one roof, the holidays, and what to do if it’s more than conflict.

Money, two ways, clearly labeled. Every money pick says whether it’s a practical guide to the numbers or a mindset reframe from scarcity to abundance.

Built on the work of people who’ve spent their lives on this.

More than 20 books, podcasts, talks and articles, from negotiation experts, divorce and financial attorneys, mediators, high-conflict specialists, and teachers on the spiritual side of money.

Not just a library.

Switchbacks knows where you are in the process (mediation or court, settled or still negotiating) and what’s weighing on you about money and home. It brings you the guide you need before the meeting, not after it. And when it’s money fear doing the talking, it offers the mindset reframe first.

How the companion helps here.

Sessions helps you think a decision through before you make it at 2 a.m., get ready for a mediation, or untangle what’s really driving a fight about money. It never gives legal advice, and it points you to a professional when that’s what you need.

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