High-Asset Divorce

Here's an idea for a couple proceeding through a high-asset divorce with lots of personal and real property to dispose of and an inability to agree upon anything: Hold an auction, split the proceeds and be done with it. The venue for doing so is called a "divorce...

A man who went to court seeking revision of a divorce settlement in which he paid his wife for the assumed value of an investment that later flopped has been denied by the New York Court of Appeals, that state's highest court. The failed investment was one of many...

It's hard to tell how Jamie McCourt -- former Los Angeles Dodger co-owner, along with ex-husband Frank McCourt -- might be feeling right now, in the aftermath of Frank's long-expected sale of the team for $2.15 billion. The reason: All property-related matters in the...

We have until today demurred from posting any details concerning the high-asset divorce proceeding of former NBA basketball star and likely future Hall of Fame player Allen Iverson and his estranged spouse, Tawanna Iverson. The matter is, however, a bona-fide and...

We have noted for readers and highlighted in past blog posts that a high-asset divorce matter can -- and usually does -- involve a great deal of complexity. Many things can be front and center and require closest scrutiny where complex property division is involved,...

Couples obviously do not always fight harder over finances and property matters during a marriage dissolution when a high-asset divorce is in play, but that is certainly a common perception. Where multiple houses and millions of dollars are involved, negotiations...

If there is one obvious take away from all the Mel Gibson stories that have blared out from media headlines over the past couple years concerning his family life, it must be this: The man is rich. Rich enough, indeed, to have hundreds of millions of dollars left over...

Professional basketball star Kobe Bryant is reputedly the top money maker in his profession. Last year he earned close to $25 million in salary, and he also exercised a contract extension worth more than $80 million. Undoubtedly, his soon-to-be ex-wife Vanessa is well...

The result of a recent Supreme Court case involving rights to an employer-sponsored retirement account following a divorce decree underscores the importance of securing experienced family law counsel in any divorce matter that involves substantial financial interests....

The division of assets can sometimes be challenging and even contentious in a high-asset divorce case. Assets must be valued at a certain point in time for the court to properly divide them. Although a valuation date may be at any time a court decides, each state has...