Amy Colton, CDFA®

Amy Colton is a Wealth Advisor with Forefront Wealth Partners and a divorce guide at Your Divorce Made Simple. She comes to the financial planning industry after a successful career of more than 40 years in sales, management and business development in the technology and pharmaceutical industries. During that time, she spent more than 20 years at International Business Machines (IBM) as an executive in sales and management. In 2011 Amy Colton joined New York Life as a Financial Services Professional and then in 2013 she joined Forefront Wealth Partners as a Wealth Advisor. In 2020 she co-founded Your Divorce Made Simple which seeks to protect assets and negotiate equitable distribution settlements between spouses during divorce. Amy is committed to her personal mission of helping to empower women to take control of their own finances and general wellbeing. Through mentoring, sharing personal experiences, and providing sound advice, she wants to encourage women to get their financial house in order and to make decisions from a place of strength not fear. She wants them to move forward with confidence and optimism and encourages her clients to choose their destinies and not be a victim of circumstances. She has devoted both practices to assisting women through life's biggest transitions, which are the death of a loved one, retirement, and divorce. All of which need financial planning. When a family law attorney grew tired of the emotional stresses of working with couples breaking up, the attorney began to send her clients to Colton. It was her job to help them work out the details and get the couple to come to agreement. The lawyer would then file the necessary papers with the courts and write the divorce decree. That led Colton to start Your Divorce Made Simple. But she didn't see herself just sitting in as a financial advisor. She believed that she could serve her clients more efficiently and fairly if she was better equipped in other ways, and so she became a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) and a family law mediator. Now she guides individuals and/or couples through the divorce process, including tax and financial planning, which are critical long after divorce. She is currently working on her book about her divorce process called "The Kitchen Table Divorce" and expects it to be available by the end of this year.