You cannot draw Social Security off your ex spouses work record. If you were the high earner to determine that you look at your Social Security estimated amount that you can find. If you set up your own Social Security account you cannot set up an account to find out how much you’d be eligible to draw off of your spouse you can take your marriage license and your divorce degree to the Social Security office and they can tell you that amount and tell you if you’d be better off filing as a spouse we’re filing off your own work record.

Can you automatically draw social security off your expaus? No, you have to qualify by having been married for 10 full consecutive years. Now you can not remarry. You cannot currently be remade. You might have remade, but you're not currently remarried if you want to draw off of your expaus. Your expaus can be remarried. That's fine. That doesn't preclude you from being able to draw off of your expaus. Now if you're the high earner, you can't draw off your expaus. Your expaus might be able to draw off your social security. For you to draw a social security off of your expaus, one, your expaus has to be at least age 62. He doesn't have to be drawing, but he has to age in at least 62. You, again, have to be at least 62. Half of his social security has to be more than all of yours. You're like, I don't know how much he's going to get. Take your marriage license, your divorce decree to the social security office. They can tell you that amounts help you decide if you want to file, apply now or wait.