We pose the following hypothetical -- which is certainly mirrored by reality in many Massachusetts marriages -- in an article on our family law website at the To wit: One half of a married partnership -- let's say the wife, which is more...
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High-net-worth divorce: keeping things under control
The wording in the above headline for today's blog post certainly implies that things can spin out of control in a high-asset divorce, doesn't it?In fact, they sometimes do, and for a multitude of reasons. Seasoned divorce attorneys who routinely work with wealthy...
Divorce-related insurance division: some things to think about
Many Massachusetts residents involved in the divorce process obviously have property-related concerns, most specifically issues surrounding an equitable division of marital assets.And within that select sphere of concerns is the division of insurance, which, as we...
A “really tricky” case: ex-spouse’s charitable giving challenged
If there's one oft-used idiomatic expression that really resonates with officials at the Massachusetts Worcester Polytechnic Institute these days, it is likely this: stuck between a rock and a hard place.For that is precisely where the school seems to be squarely...
Understandably, high-value divorces bring added complexity
That above post headline for today's blog entry doesn't exactly rock your world, does it? After all, it's just a given -- and eminently obvious, too -- that a comparatively high threshold of wealth featuring in a divorce will yield layered concerns and complexities...
Asset dissipation in divorce: the need to respond is obvious
Although it certainly doesn't denote commonplace behavior in most divorces, the actions of a spouse marked by a clear bad-faith impulse to materially hurt a partner financially are far from being aberrational in select marital dissolutions in Massachusetts and...
You want to keep your business intact following divorce. Can you?
There is a short and succinct answer to the above-posed headline query for today's blog post.And it is necessarily qualified, as such: maybe. Regular readers of our family law blog at the Wellesley , are frequently reminded that, where...
Divorce and retirement: an introduction to QDROs
Most couples who have been married for long periods of time have invested large amounts of time, effort and expense in their relationship. This process of creating a life together generally combines their emotional and financial assets. However, having large amounts...
Fair property division in divorce: evaluating claim of “genius”
Massachusetts courts and those in most other American states employ a so-called "equitable property division" scheme when evaluating how marital property should be distributed in a divorce.For myriad reasons (especially in a high-asset decoupling involving multiple...
What you were used to: Is that still applicable post-divorce?
We suspect that many of our readers across Massachusetts occasionally see divorce-linked articles in the media that centrally focus upon some opulence-related tangent.That is, tabloid offerings definitely tend to stress what might reasonably strike many people as...