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A high-asset divorce requires a particularly focused and strategic approach. When one or both spouses possess significant wealth—such as business interests, investment portfolios, multiple properties and retirement accounts—their division of assets becomes far more...
Everyone who divorces their spouse has their reasons for ending their marriage. However, the law recognizes specific reasons for filing for divorce. In Georgia, these reasons fall into two categories: no-fault and fault-based grounds. Understanding the legal reasons...
This article looks at grey divorce with a focus on why property division is more complicated during it. Baby Boomers are divorcing in record numbers and that has helped fuel the so-called ‘grey divorce’ boom. As MarketWatch reports, for Americans aged 50 and up...
Divorce requires that spouses separate their lives. They stop living together, stop sharing their income and stop splitting financial obligations. Actually separating finances can be one of the biggest challenges that couples face during divorce proceedings. The more...
The U.S. economy thrives in no small part thanks to small businesses. Many of these enterprises are owned by married couples or by extended families. When spouses who have an interest in a small business divorce, addressing how that interest will be managed is often a...
Couples in Georgia may have made sacrifices together to save for the down payment used to purchase their home. They may have both invested sweat equity by helping maintain and improve the property during their tenancy there. It is therefore typically necessary for...
Georgia divorces can be very frustrating and expensive. People may spend a year or longer trying to extricate themselves from unhappy marriages. The more that divorcing spouses disagree about, the longer it will likely take them to obtain a final divorce decree....
One of the biggest fears people have about divorce is the possibility of losing their most valuable assets. For some people, the assets that they focus on during divorce are their marital homes or their retirement savings. For others, a business or professional...
Whether you started a professional practice after finishing graduate school or you inherited the company business from your father, your company may both be one of your largest individual assets and the primary source of income for your household. Obviously, you would...
There are some assets that you acquire with very little consideration and others that you spend years paying for or planning to acquire. Those more expensive assets are often a source of conflict in Georgia divorces. Couples frequently disagree about who should keep...
