Certified Divorce Financial Analyst & Mediator

Divorce Financial Planning and Settlement Guidance

With the exception of child custody, divorce is, at its core, a financial restructuring of your life. The decisions you make during this time may be among the most important financial decisions you will ever face.

As a Divorce Financial Analyst and Mediator, I help you:

Understand your complete marital financial picture
Analyze settlement options and long-term outcomes
Make fact-based decisions instead of emotional ones
Reduce unnecessary conflict, stress, and expense

What looks fair today may not be fair five or ten years from now. My role as a divorce mediator is to help you see the full financial picture before agreements are finalized.

Featured Divorce Mediation Case Study

Keeping the Marital Home with the Low Rate Mortgage

Dan and Cynthia were a couple in their early 50s. They had a marital home which they had refinanced when mortgage rates were super low. Cynthia wanted to keep the home and they hoped she wouldn’t lose their 2.8% interest rate. The problem was they were both on the mortgage and the deed.

Attorneys aren’t financial experts and won't provide you the financial information and guidance you need.

The biggest misconception that people have when they hire an attorney is that their attorney will give them the financial guidance they need. As a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, I have advanced training in all financial aspects of divorce mediation that attorneys don’t have.

At The Right Divorce Solution, we believe that working through a divorce in an amicable, reasonable manner begins when our clients have an understanding of their marital finances. We believe divorce mediation settlements are achieved when clients are educated about their finances and settlement alternatives which empowers them to make facts-based decisions. Misinformation and misconceptions about how one or both of the parties will live after the divorce is detrimental to the divorce process and can unnecessarily drive-up expenses or lead to inequities. We establish reasonable post-divorce financial and lifestyle expectations based on actual numbers.

I invite you to call me, Mary Salisbury, CDFA, at (910) 622-7180 to discuss The Right Divorce Solution for you.

I am very happy that I found Mary Salisbury to help me through a difficult period in my life. She has the expertise to make discovery of financial information that I never would have known how to do. I felt that she was looking out for my best interests. I would highly recommend her services to anyone who wants an honest, ethical, competent professional to help them.

- Linda Russ

Featured Article of The Day

How Separate Property in a 401(k) Plan Is Often Divided the WRONG Way

Friday, Jun 28th 2024 | Mary Salisbury | Divorce

When a couple marries and at least one spouse has been contributing to the company 401(k) plan, in NC and many other states, the account balance as of the date of marriage PLUS gains or minus losses is separate property. (This also applies to IRAs that existed on the date of marriage when contributions were made during the marriage.) This separate property amount can be... (read more)