Released on: August 11, 2008, 10:37 am

Press Release Author: Financial Divorce Association

Industry: Financial

Press Release Summary: Colorado entrepreneur Carol Ann Wilson has been awarded the
prestigious Pioneering Award by the Association of Divorce Financial Planners
(ADFP).

Press Release Body: [Longmont, CO] - Colorado entrepreneur Carol Ann Wilson has been
awarded the prestigious Pioneering Award by the Association of Divorce Financial
Planners (ADFP). The Pioneering Award honors individuals who have made outstanding
contributions to the field of divorce. In 1993, Wilson founded the profession of
Financial Divorce Professionals, specialists who are trained in the financial issues
surrounding divorce and who work with divorcing clients and their attorneys to
achieve fair and equitable divorce settlements.

Wilson began developing the profession with her training as a Certified Financial
Planner. In 1985, she started working primarily with divorcing clients and
discovered that determining how to divide assets in divorce was a serious problem.
Divorce attorneys tend to be unaware of the many tax laws and loopholes that
financial planners used to help clients, and judges rely only on the evidence
presented by attorneys. No one was accurately analyzing the financial situation of
the divorcing couple, and often divorces resulted in financial disaster for one or
both of the parties involved.

Wilson discovered that, by working with a divorcing client and their attorney, she
could help them achieve a more equitable agreement that took into account long-term
financial consequences. Not only did this make clients happy, but attorneys and
judges welcomed the expert help as well.

By 1993, she had become the nation\'s foremost expert on divorce financial issues.
She developed certification programs and educational institutes to provide training
and credentials for other financial planners to gain divorce expertise. Wilson has
since trained thousands of attorneys, CPA\'s and financial planners in the field of
divorce and long-range settlement forecasting. She is often asked to serve as an
expert witness in court, having testified in over 120 divorce cases nationwide.

While Wilson was the first to pioneer the field of divorce financial planning, she
now has former students helping divorcing clients all over the country. Many of her
protégés will be present when she accepts the Pioneering Award at the Association of
Divorce Financial Planners (AFDP) Annual Conference, September 11-12 in New York
City.

Wilson\'s dedication to helping couples financially survive their divorce has driven
her to continuously develop more tools to help them. Wilson has authored and
co-authored several books including 40 Tips For Surviving Your Divorce, Survival
Manual to Divorce, Survival Manual for Men in Divorce, Survival Manual for Women in
Divorce, Dollars and Sense of Divorce, and ABC\'s of Divorce for Women.

Currently, Wilson is the president of the Financial Divorce Association, located in
Longmont, Colorado, and an owner of the Academy of Financial Divorce Practitioners
in Chicago. Her expertise, as the founder of the profession, is highly sought-after,
and Wilson continues to consult with divorcing clients today.

In 2007, Wilson pioneered a new niche in the field of divorce for real estate
professionals who work with divorcing clients. The Real Estate Divorce Specialist
Certification Program trains real estate professionals in legal and tax aspects of
divorce as it relates to the division of real estate so they can help their clients
avoid pitfalls common in divorce. Like her Financial Divorce Professional training,
she expects the Real Estate Divorce Specialist program to spread nationwide through
live seminars and a self-study course that she is developing. The next live training
is Aug. 20-21 in Aurora, CO.

About receiving the Pioneering Award, Wilson says, \"After hearing so many tragic
stories from women in my office after their divorce was final, I saw that there was
a desperate need for them to have financial consulting before their divorce. I\'m
thrilled and honored to be recognized for my contributions to this field.\"

For more information:
http://www.FDAdivorce.com/
http://www.RealEstateDivorceSpecialist.com/
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Web Site: http://www.FDAdivorce.com

Contact Details: Carol Ann Wilson, Financial Divorce Association
(303) 774-1225 or 1-888-332-3342