Financial planning for life transitions
When marriage, loss, or a new job reshapes your finances in ways that can't be addressed with a quarterly portfolio review.
This might sound familiar
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What we've noticed

Every major life change comes with a financial to-do list

There’s a long list of urgent things to handle

The legal paperwork, the logistics, the emotional weight of it all. Financial planning ends up last on the list or delegated to whoever handled it before. By the time people turn to it, decisions have already been made that are hard to undo.

The plan you had was built for a different version of your life

A plan built for a dual-income household doesn’t work for someone navigating finances alone. A tax strategy built for an employee doesn’t hold when you start a business. The people who were advising you before may not have been wrong. They were just working with information that’s no longer accurate. 

What a financial planner should answer for you

Where to focus financial planning during transitions

What does my financial picture look like right now?

A complete accounting of what you own, what you owe, and what’s changed, not a summary of what used to be true.

What you get access to

Services built for what major transitions need
Financial planning
A current-state assessment of your full picture: income, assets, liabilities, and what each decision in the coming months will mean for everything else.

Tax strategy

Tax implications aren’t always visible in the moment. A divorce settlement, a life insurance payout, a new compensation package, a change in filing status – each of these has planning opportunities that close quickly.

Investment management

When circumstances shift, so does the right approach to your portfolio or how your assets should be positioned. We build and manage portfolios that account for your situation.

Estate planning coordination

Your estate documents might reflect a version of your life that no longer exists. We coordinate with your estate attorney or connect you with one.

Cash flow and income planning

One of the most disorienting parts of a major transition is not knowing, month to month, what you can spend. We build a clear picture of your income, your obligations, and what you can move with confidence.

Insurance and protection review

Maybe your policies are sized for a different household or disability coverage was tied to an employer you’ve left. We review your coverage and make sure it reflects the life you’re living now.

What working with us looks like

From the first conversation, forward

01

Discovery
We start by understanding your full picture, what changed, what feels uncertain, and what you need to get right.

02

Fit

We match you with an advisor who understands your situation and who’s well-suited to work with you.

03

Strategy

We build a coordinated plan around your life now and what you want it to look like.

04

Partnership

We stay in it with you so you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Who we work with

Moments bringing clients to us
01

Getting married
Two financial lives coming together brings different plans for the future. We help couples build the relationship between their finances before assumptions harden into habits.

02

Going through a divorce
A divorce restructures your financial picture overnight with settlement decisions, asset division, and plans that now needs to work for one person instead of two. We help clients navigate the divorce without leaving the decisions to chance or to whoever has the better lawyer.

03

Losing a spouse or partner
Whether you’re retitling accounts or trying to understand survivor benefits, we walk alongside clients through this process without rushing it and make sure your decisions are made the way you want.

04

Starting a new job or changing careers
A new compensation package, equity you haven’t had before, a benefits enrollment deadline, a 401(k) rollover that needs to go somewhere. We make sure you don’t miss the decisions that only come around once.

What we hear often

Frequently asked questions

The sooner the better. The most important planning decisions after a transition have windows that close quickly. There’s no moment that’s too late to start. We work with clients at every stage of the process, whether they’re anticipating a change or already in the middle of one.
If your advisor hasn’t proactively reached out to revisit your plan since your life changed, that’s worth noticing. Transitions require a different kind of attention than steady-state financial management. We’re happy to talk through what a second opinion would look like.

We work with clients before, during, and after the legal process. In many cases, having a financial advisor involved early helps you understand the implications of the decisions you’re being asked to make before you make them.

No. Most people come to us mid-transition with incomplete information and a lot of open questions. That’s what our first conversation is designed to handle.