Blog Posts in Divorce

Every year starting in late February my office receives calls from divorcing clients either demanding that their spouse sign a joint tax return or refusing to sign a joint tax return and choosing to ...

Just because most of my clients have not hired a divorce financial planner doesn't mean that you should or should not. Like most financial decisions it depends on many factors. In some divorce cases ...

Under NY Divorce Law if a spouse takes separate property and adds their spouse to the title/account marital property is created and the asset is subject to equitable distribution even if the asset was ...

In divorce law when one person owns property or an asset as " separate property " (acquired before the marriage or received during the marriage but an exception is made for gifts, inheritance or ...

The easiest example of the valuation of separate property is a bank account that on the date of the marriage has $100,000 in one spouse's name and throughout the marriage the account is never jointly ...

To divide property when people get divorced in NY ( equitable distribution ) the first question is whether the item is marital or separate property . The question sounds simple but the answer is not. ...