One the bigger tasks when you're divorcing is to organize and understand your financial situation. This provides the foundation for all subsequent negotiations around finances, but many spouses are at a loss for how to get started. Over the next four episodes, we'll cover the basics of how to begin organizing your finances, vis-a-vis your income, expenses, assets and debts. Episode 75 focuses on income.

When figuring out the distribution of assets in your divorce, you may have a subset of assets, or a single asset, that you can neither sell to a third party, nor divide between you. What then? Episode 74 will lay out your options.

In the course of your divorce negotiation, you may face the question of whether, and to what degree, to take less (or provide more) than the law calls for. How can you determine, in your particular situation, whether that's the right thing to do? How can you ensure that a decision you make today is not one you regret down the road?

It's uncommon for someone to feel like their divorce process resolved too quickly. The opposite is more frequently the case. Why does divorce take as long as it does, and often so much longer than divorcing spouses would like? And what can you do to move your divorce along more quickly?

Many people wonder if they can update their will or other estate planning documents before their divorce is finalized. Sometimes yes, sometime no. Episode 71 provides an overview of the ways in which changes to estate planning are typically restricted during divorce, and common exceptions to those restrictions.

Episode 70 describes several of the more important but less obvious considerations for you to keep in mind as you think through the ideal division of your marital assets.

Once you and your spouse have agreed to the amount and duration of child support and/or spousal support, there are two important questions you need to answer. One, do you want to speak to whether support may change in the future, in amount or duration? Two, if so, do you want to speak to exactly how support would change? Episode 69 will take you though how to think about support "modification" in the context of your divorce negotiation.

If you own your home and want to complete a buy-out of one spouse's interest in the home, you will typically also need to refinance or assume the mortgage. In Episode 68, we look more closely at how that works.

When you've been in mediation, and you're ready to have outside attorneys review your draft agreement, what's the best way to go about coordinating that? Should their review be sequenced, or happen simultaneously? Answers to those questions in Episode 67!

What's a term sheet? Do you need one? We'll take a look at the role a term sheet can play in your mediation or negotiation process in Episode 66.