From a legal perspective, I see a lot of divorces that were done half-assed. Property settlement agreements that were not followed through upon, or never completed at all.

Don't do a divorce half-assed. Get it done right and completed. Get all property retitled correctly, get mortgages refinanced or get out of the property.

Saw a case recently where a woman needed to get a mortgage modified, and the bank would have done so, if the ex-husband had signed over authority to her. But he'd disappeared after the divorce, the property settlement had never been finished and so wasn't a court order (in which case, the court would have signed for him). Bottom line, couldn't modify mortgage, couldn't short sale, property went to foreclosure and ruined her credit.

Cheap, half-assed divorces are a bad idea.