Your health: Is January National Divorce Month? – Some couples, as part of a fresh start to the new year, are heading to divorce attorney offices.

When Your Credit Score Is Too Low for a Mortgage – Mortgage lenders have tightened their credit requirements since the freewheeling lending days that led to the financial crash. Borrowers need, in general for a conventional mortgage, a minimum FICO score of about 650. Remember, the higher your credit score, the lower you mortgage interest rate will be.

US Property Foreclosure Filings At Lowest Annual Level Since 2007: Report – There were nearly 1.4 million default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions in 2013, a report released earlier this week showed, with Florida topping the list of states for foreclosures, even as inventory dropped steeply from peak levels while the speed of the foreclosure process slowed to a record pace.