What is 'High Asset Divorce'? High asset divorces often attract significant attention due to their complexity and the substantial wealth involved. These divorces typically involve individuals with significant net worth, intricate financial portfolios, multiple...
As evidenced by informally surveying attorneys and clients, most clients believe their spouses have hidden cash and assets prior to a divorce settlement and most divorce settlements disregard this suspicion. Clients then become unsatisfied that their settlement...
Funding Divorce Expenses Sometimes a dollar is not worth a dollar. In other words, if a financial asset will be split in settlement, every dollar in that asset is worth to each respective spouse whatever fraction would be awarded to each respective spouse. If a...
Credibility Is A Cornerstone to a Divorce Settlement... A contended divorce involves two spouses that disagree and are not inclined to compromise. Making a case to convince the other spouse (or a decision authority, like a Judge) to agree or acquiesce requires...
Setting Divorce Settlement Financial Goals... One of the first activities that a client should focus their attention to accomplish is determining goals to achieve at and beyond settlement. Goals normally involve some combination of reducing legal expenses, optimizing...
Introduction to Constructive Negotiations in Divorce... What is constructive negotiations? It is a technique for which both parties work together with some level of transparency to achieve an outcome that recognizes the desires of both parties. Effectively, these...