Managing the Financial Aspects of Divorce |
We help you create a short and long-term financial settlement by helping you understand the financial
issues of:
- Selling or keeping the house
- Spousal support or alimony
- Lifetime
support
- Child support
- Separate and marital property
- Potential tax problems
- Potential credit
problems
- Pensions
- Stock options and deferred compensation
- Partnership interests
- IRAs, 401(k)s,
403(b)s, 457s, deferred compensation, and other retirement plans
- Valuing, dividing and trading off property including
the family business
- Ensuring support and other payments
- Understanding the pros and cons of mutual fund, bank
and brokerage accounts in relation to the action
- Valuing life insurance
How we work:
- As a financial neutral with couples engaged in a mediation
- As a financial neutral with
couples engaged in a collaborative divorce process
- For situations that are adversarial, we are
a member of one party's divorce team
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What We Do for You and Your Team: |
- Understand your concerns and your situation - now and in the future
- Help
you understand the financial status and issues of your situation
- Create and explain spreadsheets
and graphs so you truly understand the present and future effects of various settlement options
- Work
with your lawyer, mediator, or collaborative team to structure an understandable, equitable and fair settlement that can be
presented to the Court
- Provide financial expertise and extensive experience in the drafting
of QDROs acceptable to private, public, and governmental employers
- Find and value hidden assets
- Assess family
businesses and trusts, special types of compensation, and complex compensation and retirement plans
- Appear
in court as an Expert Witness - a powerful tool for your attorney and the Court.
