financial advisors

America is DIY Nation, but in certain financial situations, a do-it-yourself strategy can make a bad situation much worse, because in investing and money matters, most of us don't know what we don't know. Here are eight times in your life when the high stakes demand that you call in the experts.

Picking a financial planner can be hard. Bonnie Kirchner ought to know. The certified financial planner and Boston-based financial personality discovered in 2004 that she was married to one of the biggest swindlers in American history. Her husband, Bradford Bleidt, defrauded his clients of $30...