How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships | The Costs of Splitting Benefits with Tyler Wrage

What happens when your divorce gets in the way of the coverage that helps you stay healthy and feel safe? Tyler Wrage is a benefits consultant with The Strategic Group and joins us to walk us through the process of separation of shared benefits.

Show Notes

All right, we get it. A review of benefits programs might not seem like the most entertaining fodder for a podcast about divorce. But wait, just hear us out.

See, if you're on your spouses benefits program, you could be looking a unraveling a potentially expensive web of coverage, from life insurance to health plans to pensions, IRAs, and 401ks, each of which leads to choice you get to make on a specific — and regulated — time table.

So, what happens when your divorce gets in the way of the coverage that helps you stay healthy and feel safe? Tyler Wrage is a benefits consultant with The Strategic Group and joins us to walk us through the process of separation of shared benefits.

(00:00) - Welcome to How to Split a Toaster
(00:26) - Tyler Wrage, Benefits Specialist
(03:23) - Types of Insurance
(05:10) - Insurance During Divorce
(06:18) - COBRA
(09:56) - Standing Order and Post-Divorce
(14:04) - Cost
(17:43) - Timing
(22:21) - If It's My Insurance
(23:39) - Good Will During the Process
(26:17) - Pitfalls Today
(30:41) - Health Savings Accounts
(31:46) - Finding Tyler
(32:41) - Question Corner
(38:29) - Wrapping Up

Creators & Guests

Host

Pete Wright

Podcaster and co-host, Pete Wright brings years of marriage and a spirit of curiosity to the divorce process. He's spent the last two decades interviewing experts and thinkers in emotional healing and brings that with him to the law, divorce, and saving relationships in the process.

Host

Seth R. Nelson

Seth Nelson is the founding attorney and managing partner at NLG Divorce & Family Law. He is a Tampa-based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems.

Producer

Andy Nelson

Hailing from nearly 25 years in the world of film, television, and commercial production, Andy has always had a passion for storytelling, no matter the size of the package.

What is How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships?

Seth Nelson is a Tampa based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. In How to Split a Toaster, Nelson and co-host Pete Wright take on the challenge of divorce with a central objective — saving your most important relationships with your family, your former spouse, and yourself.