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Divorce is the formal legal dissolution of a marriage. The divorce process implicates many diverse areas of the law including, but not limited to, real estate, wills and trusts, child custody, and tax.

Successfully Dividing Business Assets in a Marital Divorce: Creative Options for Valuing and Dividing Private Company Interests

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/20/2023

Marital divorces are often difficult under the best of circumstances, but tensions may be even higher when the marital estate includes substantial interests the married couple own jointly in private companies, which they are...more

Digital Planning Podcast: Digital Assets in Divorce, Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements, Families and Minors

Troutman Pepper on 11/5/2019

The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning and estate administration. Your hosts, Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch and Justin...more

Business Interests Can Complicate Divorce

Stange Law Firm, PC on 12/10/2018

In any divorce, dividing the marital property and debt can be a complicated endeavor. The truth is that some parties can have martial assets of various kinds. ...more

Seven Tips if Getting Divorced and You Own a Business Together

Jaburg Wilk on 11/13/2018

Divorce can be difficult enough without adding the complexity of a community owned business into the mix. There are important steps you should take to protect both the business - and yourself - during the divorce as the goal...more

Dividing the Assets: Different Types of Businesses

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 9/16/2016

This is the latest in my series of articles examining how the marital interest of one spouse in the ownership of a business enterprise can be monetized in the division of assets in a divorce. Prior articles have largely...more

Divorce – Four Business Reasons for a Prenuptial Agreement

Gray Reed on 11/19/2014

With an ongoing Oklahoma divorce case in mind last month Tilting wrote about Tigh A. Knott, his wife Lucy Knott and how a business owner’s divorce can impact his business and affect his partners. The real players were Harold...more

And You Thought Marriage Divorces Were Ugly, Try A Business Divorce

Burr & Forman on 9/12/2013

Co-owners of a medical practice can fight worse than an old married couple and if there is no way in the ownership documents to "break the tie" the results are usually a financial disaster. Some of the most contentious...more

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