Above all else, the CDLP™ uses their knowledge and expertise to help the divorcing homeowner make a more informed decision regarding their home equity solutions and mortgage financing options.

The role of the CDLP™ is to assist the client and their lawyer or financial advisor to understand how the decisions they make today will impact the client’s ability to obtain mortgage financing in the future.

A Certified Divorce Lending Professional brings the financial and background knowledge of a solid understanding of the connection between Divorce and Family Law, IRS Tax Rules, and mortgage financing strategies as they all relate to real estate and mortgage financing in a divorce situation.

In over 70% of all divorces in the United States, real estate is involved and most often, so is the need for mortgage financing. Due to the unique mortgage financing requirements that divorcing clients often face, a Certified Divorce Lending Professional is a significant member of the Professional Divorce Team.

The role of the CDLP™ is to help the divorcing client and the other members of the professional divorce team understand the home equity solutions available and the challenges divorce can bring to mortgage financing during and after the divorce. When the CDLP™ is involved during the divorce process and not after the fact, many potential financing struggles can be avoided with valuable and educated input from the Certified Divorce Lending Professional. 

The CDLP™ understands their role is not to provide legal or tax advice. Instead, their position on the professional divorce team is to help by providing insight on mortgage financing opportunities, recognizing potential legal or tax concerns that may arise in any given circumstance while bringing these concerns or opportunities to the attention of other team members.

• Serve as a neutral facilitator rather than an advocate and advisor representing only one party in the divorce.
• Become an essential part of the professional divorce team and become involved early in the process rather than as a post-decree referral.
• Recognize potential legal and tax implications concerning mortgage financing in divorce situations.
• Identify potential concerns with support/maintenance structures that may conflict with mortgage financing opportunities.
• Implement a strategic divorce settlement agreement while working with the professional divorce team that ensures the best opportunities to secure mortgage financing post-divorce.
• Work with divorcing couples in a collaborative setting and other Alternative Dispute Resolution methods.
• Become an Effective Expert Witness.
• And So Much More!

The Certified Divorce Lending Professional (CDLP™) Certification Course is a divorce mortgage planning training program designed to prepare you to become an integral member of the professional divorce team. Candidates learn the important background knowledge of family law, financial and tax planning, and real property as they intersect with divorce mortgage planning.

Program Structure & Breakdown

Introduction to the Divorce Market

Divorce Principles

Understand the divorce process while becoming a financial neutral in Alternative Dispute Resolution, working with high conflict clients, and becoming an effective expert witness.

Family Law & Real Estate

How to identify the disconnect between family law & real property matters in a divorce situation while working with divorce professionals during the settlement process.

Financial & Tax Planning in Divorce with Real Property

Learn to recognize essential financial and tax implications divorcing clients face and help set them up for success post-divorce. 

Divorce & Real Property

Work with divorcing sellers and buyers while avoiding common legal pitfalls.

Mortgage Planning & Divorce

How to recognize obstacles and work with divorcing clients to secure current and future mortgage financing in a divorce situation. 

CDLP™ Examination

The examination consists of 100 multiple-choice questions. Candidates must pass with an 80% or higher to receive the CDLP™ designation. All exams are taken through the CDLP™ portal once all learning modules have been completed.

Maintaining Your Designation

1. Once you complete the CDLP™ certification course, your designation is valid for one year, after which you must maintain an active membership with the Divorce Lending Association of $297/annually. 
2. To ensure continuing competency in tax codes, legislative, and other ongoing developments in the field of divorce mortgage planning, you must complete four (4) hours of continuing education provided by the Divorce Lending Association annually. (Included with your membership.)

In the simplest terms, business development can be summarized as the ideas, initiatives, and activities that help make a business better. Once the CDLP™ certification is complete, you can participate in our 6-week Business Development Coaching program.

While you are building your practice, you still need to maintain your existing business too. Business development should never replace what you currently have. Therefore, we coach you to build and develop your CDLP™ practice around your current mortgage successes.

This is a 6-week live coaching program to help you open doors to new partners (or reaffirm existing ones) like never before!

The CDLP™ 10|20 business development program helps you:

• Identify your Best Fit Partners to take your CDLP™ practice to the next level.
• Implement a strategic 10 Touch | 20 Day process to building your referral network.
• Deliver a dynamic narrative supported by amazing new CDLP™ collateral to land the introductory meeting.
• Retain and nurture the new connection into a strong and loyal relationship.

Our belief is that service before the sale is the winning formula to building a powerful divorce mortgage planning practice.

Once you have successfully started creating strategic relationships, we help you manage your success with the CDLP™ Business Management program.

The CDLP™ Business Management & Marketing Platform provides a results-driven and robust marketing and business development platform.  Keeping you top of mind with divorce professionals as their go-to CDLP™ Expert and resource.

Grow and manage your Divorce Mortgage Planning Practice with our outstanding systems.

• Build your divorce mortgage planning practice with the CDLP™ Professional Referral  Method by becoming the Trusted Advisor with a referable message.
• Nurture your strategic relationships with customized marketing programs for attorneys, financial planners, mediators, consumers, and more!
• CDLP™ Personalized Landing Pages, including weekly marketing updates & lead generation.
• Internal CRM to deliver high-quality marketing with workflows featuring you as the local CDLP™ Expert.

• Weekly group coaching calls to keep you growing, educated and motivated. We have a group coaching call every Thursday starting at noon eastern. Join industry coaching experts with experience in the divorce mortgage industry, including Jody Bruns, Greg Gale, Jen Du Plessis, and Terry Mooney!

• An entire vault of high-quality and compliant content-marketing collateral, including marketing flyers, booklets that attorneys love to keep on hand in their offices, personal brochures, and more. 
• Specialty Education, including mediation training; negotiation strategies; divorce real estate; & more!
• Continuing Education Classes and Presentations| Monthly Live Lunch & Leverage classes for your strategic partners in YOUR OFFICE or learn to present already approved courses on your own. Many offer Continuing Education credits for attorneys, CFP, and CDFA designations.

We create a culture of learning. Thus, helping CDLP™s acquire additional knowledge, skills, and expertise. Our coaching program is a practical approach to organize, create, capture and distribute knowledge. It also reduces the time required for knowledge transfer by providing direct access to our CDLP™ experts and peers. Our coaches can share the necessary knowledge and skills in an environment that promotes rapid learning and scaling.

 The CDLP™ Business Management platform is optional and requires an additional monthly membership.