Financial priorities change as life changes. Find the resources that match where you are right now.
These arrive whatever stage you are at. The money questions are different from the ones above, and the order you do things in matters more than usual.
File for unemployment the same week rather than when savings run low, and compare marketplace cover against COBRA before defaulting to it. Do not cash out the retirement account.
Nothing is withheld, and you owe both halves of Social Security and Medicare. Move a share of every payment into a separate account the day it arrives, and keep the business banking separate.
The decree binds the two of you, not your lenders. Joint debt stays joint until it is refinanced or paid off, and retirement accounts need their own court order to divide.
Order more death certificates than you think you need, notify without paying anything personally, and make no large decisions for six months.
Medicare does not cover long-term care. Get the power of attorney signed while they still can, and protect your own retirement, because there are no loans for that.
The damage fades long before the entry disappears, and lenders weigh recent behaviour most. One positive account reporting, paid on time, does most of the work.