News & Analysis as of August 19, 2025

Marital Assets

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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.

Is the real estate assessor’s value accurate?

Stange Law Firm, PC on 6/10/2025

In a dissolution of marriage, the value of the marital home is often a significant issue. For some marriages, the marital home may be the most valuable marital asset. Determining the value of the marital home is crucial...more

The Current Real Estate Market: And We Thought Divorce was Crazy.

Fox Rothschild LLP on 5/16/2024

One of the things young lawyers are taught when they begin to practice is that law school offers no training in how to manage client expectations. When clients search for lawyers they typically do so expecting justice and to...more

Deciding Who Keeps the House in a Divorce

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &... on 9/11/2023

One of the most common questions I am asked when a party files for a divorce is, “Who keeps the house?” There are often many considerations when answering this question. Foremost the spouse who wants to keep the house should...more

Love it or List it: What to do with the marital home in case of divorce

Bowditch & Dewey on 3/23/2021

Depending on the size of any existing mortgage, the equity in the marital home often represents a significant portion of the marital estate, however illiquid that equity may be. So how do the divorcing parties manage that...more

Inadvertent Transmutation - How What was ‘Mine’ became ‘Ours’

Jaburg Wilk on 5/25/2018

We frequently represent clients who have engaged in some type of transaction with his or her spouse during the marriage that inadvertently causes them to lose certain rights to property unknowingly. This often happens in the...more

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