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The result of a recent Supreme Court case involving rights to an employer-sponsored retirement account following a divorce decree underscores the importance of securing experienced family law counsel in any divorce matter that involves substantial financial interests. That is true for residents in Fulton County and elsewhere throughout the country, and especially in a high-asset […]
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Last updated on April 8, 2021
As we have remarked to our readers many times in prior blog posts, every divorce is unique, with the factors and considerations involved highly singular for each separating couple. Sometimes there is not much to contest or argue about, with dissolution being a simple, quick and quite straightforward matter. At other times, especially when considerable […]
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The division of assets can sometimes be challenging and even contentious in a high-asset divorce case. Assets must be valued at a certain point in time for the court to properly divide them. Although a valuation date may be at any time a court decides, each state has a specific rule it tries to abide […]
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When we last left off with the high-asset divorce dispute between a couple often described as the one-time richest married partnership in San Diego County, it was with these words: “Final arguments in the dispute are expected to continue well into the summer months.” We wrote that in our March 30 blog post, and it […]
Continue reading High-asset divorce ruling reached six years after couple splits ...
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For many separating spouses, obtaining a divorce at precisely the optimal time for doing so when taking into consideration the house, the kids, the assets, the debts and so forth isn’t always possible. Every last relevant factor isn’t always taken into account and tidied up prior to a marital dissolution. Sometimes that simply isn’t possible. […]
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In many family law practice areas, the basic legal parameters are well established among the states, with little variation. All states provide for no-fault divorce, New York being the last state to join in, just last year. The “best interests” standard is often centrally at work in matters involving children. There are certainly exceptions, though, […]
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A national association that researches and analyzes business and tax issues related to divorce is holding its ninth annual conference on divorce taxation in New York this coming weekend. A central focus of this year’s gathering is tax misconceptions that are commonly held by divorcing persons, some of which might be particularly relevant to high-asset […]
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The “Fatherhood Program” at Athens Technical College has just become the latest victim of budget cuts and dried-up funding that have already closed similar programs at 10 other Georgia colleges. The program was created in 1996, aimed at noncustodial fathers who were not meeting their child support obligations. It quickly expanded to encompass participants in […]
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Government officials and taxpayers from Carroll County and other counties throughout the state and nation are always concerned with the issue of non-custodial parents paying the child support that they owe. In recent years, many cities and counties across the country have set up government programs that help ensure continuing support obligations are met. Carroll […]
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If you’re a Georgia resident involved in a high-asset divorce proceeding, and your soon-to-be ex is trying to convince the judge that the bulk of the assets owe to his or her innate genius in acquiring them, you likely don’t have to worry unduly that you’ll be shut out by not having an equally lofty […]
Continue reading Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets: “Genius” is Not a Factor ...
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