Many people in society think of young couples getting divorced or even middle aged people having a mid-life crisis. However, in large part due to society is increased acceptance of divorce, you see an older couple getting divorced as a reality where it appears that divorce is for couples that are 50 years or older doubled in the last 20 years from the prior 20 years.  They can have a lot of different issues; including, being more complicated with retirement accounts, how they are divided and other property divisions that might be much higher than younger couples. They can also be different tax consequences from their retirement plans and the estate planning issues.