Here are five things to do after your divorce is finished with a decree or judgment.

1. Check Your Health Insurance Coverage

When your divorce is finished, you must contact your health insurer right away, or the non-employee spouse could miss out on COBRA coverage or their right to a policy of their own.

2. Review and Change Beneficiaries

Review your life insurance policies, bank accounts, investment accounts, and retirement plans to see who is listed as beneficiary on each.

3. Transfer Car Titles

If the cars are titled jointly, you need to transfer the car titles so that ownership is individual instead of joint. See your local DMV for proper forms and fees.

4. Close Joint Accounts

This is true for both checking and savings accounts, and also for credit cards. Set up new accounts for yourself and close the joint accounts.

5. Change Your Name

Go to DMV, Social Security, your banks, and so on, and change your name at these institutions to match what was ordered in your decree. For more information, click here.

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