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...
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...
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, all estimates of the size of the divorce settlement are necessarily ...
To determine whether a spouse has attempted in a divorce situation to remove assets from the claims of the other spouse, courts look at all the relevant factors including: Whether consideration is involved; Size of the property transferred versus the transferring spouse’s total wealth; ...