Is there Only One Way To Divorce?
Devices To Assist The Divorce Process The choices you make during your divorce will have short-term and long-lasting consequences. You should always try to compromise with your spouse and come to an agreement about the details of your split on your own. This way, you can keep as much control over your future as possible. […]
Restricted Stock Units in Divorce and Child Support
How Restricted Stock Units Are Treated in Divorce and Child Support Providing restricted stock units (RSUs) to employees, in addition to salary and benefits, has become popular in recent years. This is popular in the San Francisco Bay Area among startup and high tech companies. Unlike stock options, which allow an employee to purchase shares […]
Divorce? How to Handle Your Wine Collection
Divorcing? Here’s How to Handle Your Wine Collection Are you getting a divorce and own a valuable wine collection? Many challenges arise whenever a divorcing couple has a valuable wine collection. The first challenge is how to physically handle it, to not destroy the taste of the wine nor damage the labels. The second challenge […]
Watts Charges & Epstein Credits: Who Pays What?
Watts Charges and Epstein Credits Who Pays What Between Separation and Divorce? When a couple is in the process of getting divorced but hasn’t yet decided how to divide up their assets, the financial aspects of day-to-day living can get complicated. As an example, one member of the couple may continue to live in their […]
How to Retain Your Home’s Capital Gains Exclusion in a Divorce
How to Retain Your Home’s Capital Gains Exclusion When Getting Divorced If you are getting divorced and selling your home, you can still take advantage your marital capital gains tax exclusion. This blog post explains how. But, first, what is the home sales capital gains exclusion all about? If you own a home that has […]
No Alimony Deduction? You Can Still Minimize Taxes
No Alimony Deduction? You Can Still Minimize Your Taxes. Prior to 2019, individuals who paid alimony to their ex-spouse could deduct that amount from their income before paying taxes to the federal government. The recipient paid taxes on the alimony they received, but at their lower tax bracket. All of that changed for couples whose […]
Is Every Marital Asset Community Property? [A Complete Guide.]
If you are going through a divorce in California, you may be wondering if everything you owned with your spouse is community property. California is a community property state. So, absent a valid pre or postnuptial agreement marital property rights of California are fixed according to community property law. If that sentence is confusing, you […]
Documents to Bring When Meeting with Your Divorce Attorney
Financial Documents to Bring When Meeting with Your Divorce Attorney When you are getting divorced, both you and your spouse must disclose your complete financial information. This information includes your income, expenses, liabilities, assets, business interests and other important financial information. Your divorce attorney will be able to help you understand your current financial situation […]
What Is the Child Support Exception for High-Income Earners?
What Is the Child Support Exception for High-Income Earners? California’s statewide uniform guideline stipulates the amount of child support to be paid. This is based on each parent’s net disposable monthly income and the amount of time the child will be cared for by each parent. There are some exceptions to the statewide uniform guideline, […]
Who gets the Embryo?
Who gets the Embryo? Update: This post was written in May 2017. In August 2018 we added an updated opinion and new blog post More and more couples turn to IVF as a form of assisted reproduction. As a result, an area of litigation involving who gets the embryos is growing. Excess embryos are created […]