You own a company. Your marriage is ending. Your lawyer handles the law. Nobody hands you a plan for the next four weeks.
This is that plan.
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What goes wrong in month one
Week-one mistakes are loud. The angry text. The panic transfer. Month-one mistakes are quiet, and they feel reasonable when you make them.
The wrong lawyer, hired because a golf buddy liked him.
“Tidying up” the books. Later it reads as concealment.
A pay cut that looks like hiding income. A distribution that looks like draining the company.
A verbal parenting schedule you cannot keep.
A bad fact your lawyer hears from the other side first.
Each one is cheap to avoid in month one. Each one is expensive to explain in month nine.
What is in it
Four weekly campaigns. Each has a goal, the work, the traps and a checklist.
Week 1. Lock the foundation. Retain counsel and read what you signed. Four billing rules that cut what you spend on legal fees. Put the company on one standard: boring, consistent, documented. Start the Log, the Vault and the Lawyer List.
Week 2. The records campaign. The full binder, three to five years deep. The two documents almost every owner forgets. The commingling audit, done by you before opposing counsel does it for you.
Week 3. The money map and the team. Your three numbers. How support math treats an owner: add-backs, retained earnings, imputation. When to bring in a CPA and a valuation expert. Mediate or litigate, decided on purpose.
Week 4. Communication and the kids. One channel. A four-part standard for every message you send her. A parenting schedule you can keep without a miss. The packet you bring to temporary orders.
The working tools. Master checklist. Vault folder template. Three lawyer-email templates. The commingling worksheet.
Eleven pages. No filler. Built to be used, not admired.
The math
My divorce lawyer billed $425 an hour, in five-minute segments. Every call cost money. Every two-line email cost money.
Week 1 shows you how to batch your questions into one organized email. Do that once in place of five phone calls and the guide has paid for itself.
Who wrote it
I write under a pen name. I have been through two divorces. I owned a company during the second one. The best advice my lawyer gave me was two words: document everything. This guide is that advice turned into a 30-day plan.
I am not a lawyer. This does not replace yours. It makes you the client who shows up prepared.
The price
The First 30 Days costs $47. One payment. No subscription.
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