High Asset Divorce

Wrong! It is a common myth that prenuptial agreements can’t be challenged. Once they are signed, that’s it — the contract is valid and there’s no way for either spouse to get out of it, or so the myth goes. However, prenuptial agreements can have their flaws, and as we talked about previously, there are

Divorce is fraught with potential financial and legal pitfalls that the splitting spouses must navigate — sometimes together, but often apart. When you are going through a divorce, it is absolutely vital that you obtain your own, independent legal counsel to ensure that your divorce is being handled in the right way. Still, there are

It is very easy to portray divorce as a “failure.” The couple failed; or one of the spouses failed; or their relationship failed. Something inherent to the marriage equation broke, and the resulting divorce is supposedly the culminating failure of that broken aspect. But we are here to tell you today that divorce is not

As many Phoenix residents have probably heard by now, the power country couple of Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert is no more. The country stars decided to file for divorce recently, as their four-year marriage finally crumbled. The couple had always been plagued by extensive divorce rumors in the press, and it appears that they

Imagine that you were married to a billionaire, and that after many years of marriage, the two of you decide it is time to call it quits. You file for divorce, and the process takes its course. Eventually an agreement is in place — but the billion-dollar agreement doesn’t even come close to seeming fair,

Have you ever heard the theory that the month of March is “the divorce month?” According to some, this is an actual phenomenon where more married couples than normal decide to file for divorce in the month of March. Is there some benefit to filing in the month of March? Do the stars align just

Prenuptial agreements have a terrible reputation, one that was born out of a generation of people that believed the documents were “anti-love” and that they somehow undermined a marriage before it ever even started. However, many couples have since learned that prenuptial agreements are extremely helpful tools in a marriage — and, if necessary, a

There’s one factor that is involved in basically every divorce, and that is finances. It is simply inseparable from the process of divorce, and the financial factors involved in any divorce will loom large over most proceedings. You have to be prepared for this element in your divorce otherwise you risk losing a great deal

High asset divorces don’t get much more “high asset” than this. An oil tycoon named Harold Hamm — whose personal net worth is estimated at $19 billion — went through a divorce with his wife a few months back, and in November of last year a judge ordered that Hamm had to pay his ex-wife

If you and your spouse were to get a divorce, how do you think the assets would be divided? How would your home be handled? How would the many different banking, retirement and other financial accounts be dealt with? Who would get what? Would there be alimony involved, and who would pay? What about the