Mackenzie Eddie was reading Belle Burden’s runaway hit “Strangers” when she started glaring at her husband. The memoir recounts the sudden collapse of Burden’s marriage, and how financially blindsided she felt by it.
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Marilyn Chinitz, a New York divorce attorney who represented Burden during her divorce, said she advises clients to review their prenups with her every year. She said clients who read “Strangers” are now calling with old prenups in hand, saying: “I’m not getting a divorce. I just want to know if this prenup still works today.”
But changing a prenup requires both spouses to sign a postnuptial agreement, said Chinitz, a partner at Blank Rome.
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Tax forms are a good starting point for locating accounts that generated interest, dividends or other taxable income, said Stephanie Bloom Lucker, a partner at Bloom Advisors in Michigan. You will also want to find deeds for property, any trust documents and the beneficiaries named on retirement accounts and insurance policies.
The names on them won’t necessarily determine how the money is divided in a divorce. Jacqueline Combs, a California divorce attorney at Blank Rome, said clients often tell her they never commingled their fi nances because they kept separate accounts. “Well, under the law, you did,” she said.
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"The Four Big Money Questions Women Are Asking after Reading ‘Strangers,’" by Dalvin Brown was published in The Wall Street Journal on August 20, 2026.