Headscratchers / American Fiction

• How does Lisa have no net worth after her death? She is said to have lost all her money in her divorce, but how would that be possible? As a middle-aged doctor in Boston, she should have been worth hundreds of thousands pre-divorce. Even with excessive legal fees, there should still be a lot left.
  • Lisa is a doctor, but she also works for an abortion clinic which looks to be a non-profit clinic for low-income women. It's possible she wasn't pulling down the high salary one might expect for that market. When Monk comes home to find the lights have been shut off for non-payment, Lorraine says that Lisa used to handle the expenses. Between whatever happened in her divorce, supporting her mother and Lorraine, the possibility that she never had life insurance, and whatever bills accrued from the ER visit where she passed, they could have taken out a significant chunk.