High-Asset Divorce

Well-known and widely popular actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are known by millions of people for more than just their acting chops. In a town and industry where marital constancy seems rare and celebrity high-asset divorce seems far more the norm, the couple's...

The popular perception may be that upper-income people have no money worries, even if they get divorced. But that perception is often wrong. Psychologists and social scientists are starting to study how post-Great Recession economic trauma affects rich as well as...

High-asset couples and those of more modest means often have different types of money issues to resolve in a divorce. No matter how sound your financial status seems, however, it makes sense to take a good, hard look at what the end of your marriage is likely to do to...

Trust can break down in a contentious divorce. Sometimes it happens slowly, over an extended period of time. In other cases, it can happen suddenly, when you realize that your spouse has been misleading you. When misleading behavior concerns finances, it can be so...

If you think you might be at a saturation point with Tom Cruise, just wait. That is the assessment of a number of media analysts in the wake of the recent announcement that Cruise and his wife of five years, actress Katie Holmes, are getting a divorce. "Over the next...

One particular point prominently jumps out in a newspaper's examination of some of the most expensive and high-asset divorce settlements in history. That is this: If you are a would-be business tycoon and have a goal of securing an immense amount of wealth, sign a...

In a high-asset divorce, the numbers are relative. In other words, a given divorce proceeding entailing what most people might deem as significant realty and personal assets can be easily eclipsed by one that follows it and features an even weightier property...

In Georgia, a divorce that involves a family-owned business and its various considerations – which can centrally include property valuation, ownership, previous contracts and a host of other matters – can be complex and time-consuming. Although running a family-owned...

In 2009, 25 percent of all divorcing couples were baby boomers. Twenty years ago, boomers made up just 10 percent of divorcing pairs. Dividing a couple's assets and income when they are so close to retirement creates challenges that younger divorcees are unlikely to...

As noted in a recent Wall Street Journal article: "It's getting a lot tougher to keep a secret stash." Many commentators, ranging from divorce attorneys and forensic experts to accountants and private investigators, note that both rapidly evolving and firmly...