When you anticipate your marriage ending, it’s normal to race through a hundred worries at once. Near the top of that list is almost always money. You may have paid into a home or retirement account for years, or started a business before you ever…
For high-asset California couples who want to divorce without a public courtroom record, there are four established private paths: mediation, collaborative divorce, binding arbitration, and private judging (judicial reference) each supported by California statute, and each capable of keeping the substance of a complex financial…
In a California divorce, a forensic accountant is a financial expert who reconstructs the marital finances to find, value, and trace assets and income that one spouse has not disclosed undisclosed bank and brokerage accounts, below-market salaries, diverted business revenue, unreported crypto wallets, and separate…
When a Los Angeles business owner, physician, financial-services professional, or equity-compensated executive divorces, the central question is rarely whether the marital estate will be divided equally California guarantees that. The question is how much of a closely-held business, professional practice, or equity package is community…
In a California divorce, RSUs, stock options, and founder equity earned during the marriage are community property and are apportioned between the spouses (Family Code §760), while equity that is clearly traceable to the period before marriage or after separation is separate property (Family Code…
A California divorce, the family home is divided according to its character how much of it is community property and how much is separate property and then according to one of three outcomes: one spouse buys the other out, the home is sold and the…
