Divorce guide

ARTICLE TAKEAWAYS

  • Use this guide to determine what actions to consider on your accounts when you have a pending or final divorce.

Actions to consider

Consider talking to your financial professional. They can offer advice and help you make decisions when going through a major life event or change.

You can log in and complete account updates and perform transactions for most account types.

Manage your account access and ownership

  • Contact us for the documents needed to:
    • Change ownership of your accounts
    • Change the financial professional listed on your account
       

Review how your name appears on your account

Review the beneficiaries on your account

  • Remove your former spouse as an IRA and/or transfer on death beneficiary on an account and add new beneficiaries
     

Document your account balance

Review the personal and banking information on your account

  • Change your user name and password and update or remove any custom account views you may have created
  • Update your address
  • Update your email address to ensure you receive alerts about account activity, security and document availability
  • Review your online profile information for any updates needed to the delivery method of your one-time passcode
  • Update your bank account information

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