Robin Vaccai Yess opens divorce counseling office in Kingston

Robin Vaccai Yess, a Certified Financial Planner™ and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst,  has opened Hudson Valley Divorce, LLC, a financial consulting firm specializing in separation and divorce. Yess has worked with divorcing individuals and couples for the last ten years. She helps to sort out the marital finances and come up with various scenarios of equitable settlements.

“I frequently get calls from a husband or wife who wants to know what it means financially if they get divorced even though nothing is happening yet,” Yess said.

Hudson Valley Divorce, LLC clients include individuals using litigation and couples using mediation or collaborative separation and divorce. The firm provides litigation support for attorneys with Yess sometimes serving as an expert witness where she presents summaries of the proposed financial settlement to help strengthen the attorney’s case. In mediation and collaborative divorce, Yess provides analyses showing the tax impact of various settlement options and the post-divorce net worth of both spouses, which usually helps the parties to reach a settlement agreement. In mediations where the process has stalled, Yess has helped move discussions forward.

Yess, who is trained in mediation and collaborative divorce, prefers both of these methods to litigation because they typically cost the clients less, but she works on all three types of cases depending on client need and preference. Seventy-five percent of Yess’ clients are women with an average length of marriage of approximately eighteen years. The firm’s clients are generally from Ulster, Dutchess and Orange counties. For more information, visit hvdivorce.com.