When a couple is married, they often hold joint accounts, such as savings, credit cards and mortgages. This links their credit scores together. If you’ve just gone through a divorce, your credit may be in shambles. Sometimes, one partner will run up a huge credit card bill, deplete the equity in the home or otherwise try to wreak havoc with the credit score of the other party. It’s important to address this problem head on.

Credit cards are a great way to build credit, make large purchases, and keep a budget. Not all credit cards are created equal, however. There are secured and unsecured cards, rewards cards, department store cards and traditional credit cards. The Wells Fargo credit card is a traditional credit card programs.

Some credit cards come with absolutely no listed limit, which at first may seem like a good thing.

Let’s say you already have a past due on your report and you want to get the debt off your back, so you agree to pay for 75 percent of the debt.

Although intimately associated with its sexy lingerie, today the retailer actually sells a wide range of women’s wear and beauty supplies. It has 1,003 stores in operation, and each year it puts 400 million copies of its famed catalog through the mail. In 2006, sales reached the $5-billion mark, and its parent company, Limited Brands, hopes to double that figure by 2010 (we’re rooting for them; when Victoria’s Secret wins, we all win).