If you're contemplating divorce or you believe that your spouse is, it's essential to start getting your financial house in order with the help of your Florida family law attorney, a financial advisor and perhaps a forensic accountant. Otherwise, you could find that...
Complex Asset Division
Is it common for people to hide assets?
When people don't want to share their money and other assets during a divorce, there's one way they can get around splitting what they have with their spouses: They just hide the assets. Then, when everything goes through the property division process, those assets...
Consider a pension when you’re getting divorced, not later
If you're like a lot of workers, you think about your pension plan twice: When you get the job and they explain the plan to you, and when you retire. In between, you don't pay much attention to it and just let it go on its own. However, if you're getting divorced,...
An attorney should review your qualified domestic relations order
This second installment in our two-part series on retirement benefits takes a closer look at qualified domestic relations orders. QDROs can be an efficient way to satisfy alimony, child support or property division obligations in a divorce. When a court issues a QDRO...
Tip: Pensions are not automatically divided by a divorce court
Divorcing couples in Florida must divide their marital property in a way that is fair, unless a prenuptial agreement provides other instructions. Marital property includes any assets acquired during the marriage or that are jointly owned. Retirement benefits are also...
Choose collaborative divore to protect your financial privacy
Although celebrity divorces often become media fodder, there are occasional lessons to be learned. Specifically, couples that are concerned about making their custody dispute or asset holdings a matter of public record might follow the recent example of Angelina Jolie...