Couples who are older in age and who have been married for a long period of time accumulate
more marital assets and liabilities and higher incomes.
For example, the court may award one spouse
more marital assets, but the court may also assign to that same spouse more of the marital debt in order to be fair.
Not exact matches
The longer people are married the
more their
assets fall into the «
marital asset category» allowing spouses to accrue significant benefits by
marital longevity.
For its part, the divorce has left the North poor and bitter, having lost a good chunk of the
marital assets in the separation, namely the oil fields just south of the border and
more than a third of its revenue.
They'll investigate your credit history, employment and
marital status, history of bankruptcies, other mortgages, outstanding loans,
assets, business licenses, and
more.
The purpose of an A-B trust arrangement (also called a «
marital and bypass trust combination») is to enable both spouses to use the applicable estate tax exemption upon their deaths, which shelters
more assets from federal estate taxes.
While the two were married, both made substantial contributions to the acquisition of
marital assets, though husband's contributions were
more financial while wife's were
more non-economic.
Additional Resources: Splitting up retirement
assets in a divorce, Sept. 13, 2013, Bankrate.com More Blog Entries: In re: Marriage of Honer — Valuation of Marital Assets, June 18, 2015, Indiana Divorce Lawye
assets in a divorce, Sept. 13, 2013, Bankrate.com
More Blog Entries: In re: Marriage of Honer — Valuation of
Marital Assets, June 18, 2015, Indiana Divorce Lawye
Assets, June 18, 2015, Indiana Divorce Lawyer Blog
In short, if the domestic violence resulted in an unreasonable depletion of
marital assets, then the spouse who suffered the domestic violence might be awarded
more of the
marital assets, despite the fact that California is a community property state.
Asset division also becomes
more complex and confusing if the spouses do not know what makes up their
marital and personal
assets and debts, income and expenses.
His attorney argued
more broadly that medical expenses should be deemed
marital assets when they are «clearly cosmetic, elective, (and) non-necessary.»
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Marital assets, and
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The
more entangled your personal
assets are with your business
assets, the tougher it's going to be to argue the business isn't a
marital asset.
During divorce, forensic (or investigative) accounting professionals can trace the paper - trail of funds through the various accounts of the marriage, determine the actual income of the family, verify claims of «co-mingling»
marital and separate
assets, or determine the validity of a potential claim for dissipation of
marital assets (see «Dissipation Issues,» below, for
more on this topic).
Now, for whatever reason, you want to modify that agreement to get
more of the
marital assets.
Therefore, the
more effective you are in explaining to the court why your proposal for dividing
marital assets is the fairest option is critical.
This differs from states that split
marital property 50/50 upon divorce and relies
more on factors relevant to both spouses when dividing
assets and liabilities.
In Texas, you may be entitled to a greater share of the
marital assets and a
more beneficial custody order if your...
If there are any near - term issues that need to be resolved (such as an agreement to «freeze» the
marital assets while discussions are under way), those issues can be put on the front burner in the mediation and resolved before
more global issues are addressed.
Thereafter, once the parties scrape up some money to pay up the mediator's bill, then the legal issues may have changed, and the richer spouse has had
more time to hide or dissipate the
marital assets.
If your intention is to own your
marital residence in your name alone, you may need to give your spouse
more assets such as cash and retirement accounts.
However, courts may award one spouse
more of the
marital estate, depending on the contribution each spouse made to the property's acquisition, if the property was acquired before marriage or through gift or inheritance, the economic circumstances of each spouse (if one spouse squandered community
assets during marriage), and the current income and earning potential of each spouse.
There is now a
more pronounced statutory burden of proof required if there is a claim that
assets acquired during the marriage should not be
marital assets.
Their concern is that the great disparity in power between the
more powerful, income - producing husband and the less powerful, care taking wife results in the husband winning a greater share of the
marital assets.
Courts now view the marriage as an economic unit, and in general courts are
more concerned about economic misconduct — such as the dissipation of
marital assets — than they are about
marital misconduct — such as infidelity.
The divorce costs over $ 80,000 and drags on for
more than 4 years during which time both parties have liquidated a significant portion of the
marital assets, and have struggled to move forward in their respective personal lives.
Mediation, feminists assume, does not affect the existing power imbalance between men and women members of divorcing couples, with the result that the
more powerful male spouse typically wins
more than an equal share of the
marital assets.
Even though it's called a Property Settlement Agreement, this agreement covers much
more than the division of property or equitable distribution of property — it's also about child custody, parenting time, division of
assets (including personal property, real estate such as the
marital home, retirement
assets and pensions, and businesses), alimony, and any other additional issues that must be determined in furtherance of divorce or dissolution of marriage.
Being open, honest, and cooperative about the
marital assets and liabilities makes this part of the divorce go
more smoothly.
As a result, Larry and Divorce Resolutions ® are frequently asked to assist in Colorado divorces involving very substantial
assets and
marital estates with
more complex property division, maintenance planning, and retirement division issues.
Allocating
more of the
marital assets to the spouse releasing their rights to the home can be a way of doing this.