Ralston, Karina
There’s no single best way to split assets during a divorce. Your best defenses are to be informed about your assets and liabilities and to select a CDFA to help you weigh the pros and cons of different options for splitting those assets and liabilities. Take a long-term view of self-p...
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Brette's Answer: There's no easy answer to this question because all of your marital assets and debts are divided in the divorce as a package. And in many states they are not always divided half and half. You might also have a car, furniture, retirement accounts, credit card debt, car...
If you and your spouse have accumulated assets during your marriage, deciding how to divide those assets can hinder your divorce. How is your retirement going to be split when part of it was in the prior to the marriage? Are restricted stocks that don’t vest until after the date of sepa...
Below is a photo of Frances and Harold Mountain, divorcing in 1999, using their day in court to fairly divide their “assets”. Their mutual Beanie Baby collection has been shamelessly strewn about the courtroom floor as they divvy up their
" says the wife. "I've had enough, I want a divorce." "I can understand that," replies her husband, "but remember, if we get a divorce it will mean no more shopping trips to Paris, no more wintering in Barbados, no more summers in Tuscany, no more expensive cars in the garage...
The divorce is also likely to involve some nuanced questions of valuation. While publicly traded stock is easy to value, some of the assets in play are more complex. For instance, how to measure and divide the value of Jeff Bezos’ stake in The Washington Post? This means that, for now...
(ERISA), state laws ultimately govern the division of marital assets in a divorce, and state laws differ radically on who gets what when the marriage ends. The division of assets differs according to whether the divorce takes place in an equitable distribution (common law) state or in a ...
This article presents an abstract of the paper "Dividing Pensions in Divorce," 2nd ed., by Gary A. Shulman and David I. Kelley. It reports that one of the largest marital assets in divorce pr...