Lawyers like to hold cards close in #divorce. They want to save information for court. I don’t. Court is chaos. Different judge. Different county. Different outcome. And none of it is in your control. If your goal is settlement, stop playing defense. Give them the entire offer: •\tNumbers •\tAssumptions •\tEvidence •\tWritten explanation When you negotiate from the truth, secrecy doesn’t protect you - clarity does. If no one knows how to negotiate, spell it out so clearly that there’s nowhere to