Money After Divorce

Divorce is a financial margin call on your life. For Marie Bosarge, wife of a billionaire, it meant being trapped in a 27,000-square-foot chateau with no cash for legal fees. For the Macklowes, it meant the forced auction of a $700 million art collection, vaporizing a fortune in taxes and fees. These are not isolated incidents; they are extreme examples of a universal crisis where paper wealth bec...