Gray Divorce and Retirement: How Collaborative Divorce May Protect Your Financial Future with Jill Lowe (Ep. 62)
Gray divorce can significantly impact your retirement plans and emotional well-being.
How do you protect your financial future when love fades later in life? What pitfalls should you avoid to stay financially sound?
In this episode, I sit down with Jill Lowe, Collaborative Divorce Attorney at J Lowe Law, LLC, to discuss the financial and emotional layers of gray divorce. Together, we explore why more women are choosing divorce later in life and how preparation and informed decisions can lead to financial confidence.
Jill discusses:
- How education becomes a crucial tool for women considering or going through divorce
- The growing trend of gray divorce and why more women are initiating the split
- The danger of letting emotions drive decisions around keeping the marital home
- How collaborative divorce offers a less combative, more goal-focused approach
- The essential role financial planners play in mapping out a stable future post-divorce
- And more!
Resources:
- Get Your FREE Simply Retirement Roadmap
- Collaborative Divorce Texas
- Collaborative Divorce Collin County
- Purdue University Article: Overall divorce rates lowest in decades but ‘gray divorce’ soars
- #41 – Making Divorce Manageable: Financial and Emotional Insights with Neil Palache
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About our Guest:
Jill Lowe is a Collaborative Divorce Attorney and founder of J Lowe Law, LLC. With over 20 years of legal experience—18 of those focused exclusively on family law—Jill brings a unique combination of legal expertise and personal insight to her work.
She is licensed to practice law in both Texas and Florida and has been representing clients in collaborative divorces for more than 15 years. She’s also a trained collaborative professional in both states and has spent the past three years speaking publicly on the collaborative process.
Jill’s commitment to peaceful resolution stems from her own experience as a child of divorced parents and her decision—after facing serious health challenges—to step away from litigation in favor of helping families resolve conflict with compassion. She believes divorce doesn’t have to be a battle, and her work focuses on healing and collaboration instead of confrontation.
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