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    Keeping the House Post-Divorce Has Gotten More Affordable

    by Stacy Francis, CFP®, CDFA®, CES™, President & CEO, Francis Financial Inc. Feb 12, 2020 4 minutes

    Typically, financial advisers have recommended against keeping the marital home. In the past, it became too big of a financial burden for one spouse to incur all the costs associated with keeping the house on only one household income. Couples in divorce had a few options: sell the home and split the profit, buy out the other spouse or keep the house.

    Recently, staying in your house post-divorce has never been more affordable. This is great news for thousands of women, who see staying put as a must-have, post-divorce, as they hope that one less disruption to their changing family life will cause fewer ripples and offer a measure of stability during this tumultuous time.

    New York City matrimonial attorney Alexis Cirel has seen that "in many

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