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Divorce Is Destroying the Finances of Americans Over 50

  • Writer: Alan Jacobs
    Alan Jacobs
  • Sep 3, 2019
  • 1 min read

I've blogged before about "Grey Divorce" - splitting up after age 50 - and the experience's traumatic emotional and financial impacts. Grey divorce may be particularly hazardous to your emotional and financial health, far worse than doing so at younger ages.

In this excellent blog posting from Bloomberg, Ben Steverman writes about a wave of new research quantifying the damage.

 
 
 

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