Jacqueline Newman

They could be a bad spouse, but they could still be a good parent.

And that's a very, very hard thing, I think, for people to balance because they say, well, you know, this person broke up the family because they cheated.

And how could you be a good father or mother if you broke up the family?

But it doesn't really work that way.

And so I think it's very important to be direct with your clients.

You know, I bill by the hour, so they don't really have a lot of time for fluff.

And so they really want to know like how this is going to work.

But again, given in the tone of being very compassionate, being very acknowledging, because again, this is such hard, hard stuff.

And I want them to be able to hear me because as you said, like the EQ issue, I could be giving them amazing advice, but if they're not in a mental state and an emotional state to hear me, and I'm not saying it in a way that they could process it,

then it doesn't matter what the information is.

So, you know, on some levels it complicates it.

And other times it does make it easier because many of my clients are not worried about eating.

So that does make things a little bit easier and,

However, usually one of my clients are business owners.

You know, wealth is a little bit more on paper.

It's not like they have $100 million sitting in their bank account in cash.

So more often than not, they're very illiquid.

A lot of their assets are hard to appraise.

You know, we have businesses, we have private equity interests, we have hedge funds, we have real estate.

So, you know, IP.