Over the 29 years I’ve been writing this column, I have probably written a hundred columns directed at divorced women. But after answering some emails this week from men who had questions about benefits for divorcees, it dawned on me that I’ve almost never written a column for divorced men. And so today, I'll make up for that.
At the outset, I should point out that I will be concentrating on the benefits a husband’s ex-wife can receive from his Social Security account—and the effects those benefits have on his own Social Security or on benefits due to a subsequent wife. Why? Because those are the kinds of questions I get from divorced men.
