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By Tara Lynne Groth

Special to DadsDivorce.com

At any stage of the divorce process one wants to minimize the risk of credit damage. Identity theft by a former spouse, although rare, is possible.

Equifax offers an annual credit monitoring service for approximately $150 that includes identity theft insurance.

Here's a checklist for protecting your accounts and limiting the possibility of identity theft:

By Matt Allen

Editor, DadsDivorce.com

Do you have a suspicion that your spouse is cheating or hiding money from you? Well, think twice before you go through her computer and e-mails because you could end up spending five years in jail as one Michigan man has learned.

Leon Walker is being charged with a felony after using his wife’s password to login to her e-mail account to discover an affair, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Criminal charges are rarely brought from conduct in a divorce action, other than domestic violence, but a zealous prosecutor is using a Michigan statute to go after Walker.

By DadsDivorce.com reader Big D

One of the most important pieces of divorce advice I was given early in my divorce was from a best friend of mine. That advice was simple and has proven to save me over and over again. The advice was to “always take the high road.” Now, that statement can mean many things, especially in a complex, nasty, ugly, greedy, mean… (you get my point) divorce.

Even after 4 years of being divorced, I still “take the high road.” If I can help any man going through the divorce process, this advice is what I would suggest above all other advice.

So, let me give you some examples and situations that I went through, which you can extrapolate from.

Question: My wife kicked me out of our home 2 weeks ago, much to my surprise. In my begging and pleading to come back, I took responsibility for all our marital problems, to include what she termed verbal and emotional abuse. Unfortunately, I accepted all the blame in e-mails. 

Can this come back to haunt me if she chooses to use it against me for custody, or do courts recognize that I was completely blindsided by her actions, and was grasping at straws trying to save my marriage by accepting responsibility for all of our problems?