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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.

Q&A on Protecting Family Enterprises Through Collaborative Family Law

Bennett Jones LLP on 4/29/2025

When family relationships break down, the impact can extend well beyond personal matters, putting the future of a family enterprise at risk. I recently spoke with Patricia Hebert, a collaborative family lawyer, mediator and...more

Marriage, Divorce, & the Family Business: Protecting the Family Business from Divorce

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 11/11/2024

One's ownership in a closely held business (often a family business) may be affected by a separation or divorce. In many situations, the business will be joined as a party in an equitable distribution lawsuit. " One's...more

Are You Living in the “Shadow” of Wealth?

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/15/2022

In recent years there has been an evolving literature devoted to income and wealth disparities between the “top tier” of Americans and what is often termed “the rest of us.” The data seem fairly clear. Whether this disparity...more

Digital Planning Podcast: Digital Assets in Divorce, Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements, Families and Minors

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/5/2019

The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning and estate administration. Your hosts, Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch and Justin...more

Gavel to Gavel: Marriage, the sole cause of divorce

McAfee & Taft on 4/12/2018

Spring brings weddings. Cue delightful melodies as couples waltz toward union. Most engaged couples, however, focus on selection of dresses, tuxes or cake, and ignore that marriage imposes statutory and constitutional...more

Using Prenuptial Agreements to Protect the Family Farm

Ruder Ware on 1/16/2018

The family farm is a special asset. The family may have worked hard through decades, maybe even generations, to accumulate and develop the farm’s land, equipment and livestock. The children may be grown and successors to...more

Estate Planning & Family Law: How To Protect Your Assets For Future Generations

Lowndes on 10/23/2017

Norma Stanley and Derren Ciaglia explain the similarities of estate planning and family law, and give some examples of how to protect your assets in complicated planning matters....more

Premarital planning - Protecting your assets without a prenup

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. on 8/3/2015

Protecting family assets in the event of a divorce is particularly significant for family business owners, who typically want to avoid sharing ownership with their ex-spouses or their children’s ex-spouses. A prenuptial...more

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