Divorce Engagements
Marital dissolutions often present attorneys with complex financial issues. We can assist in divorce settlements by:
- Preparing financial statements for the marital estate, including marital balance sheets, schedules of equitable distribution and family law financial affidavits
- Tracing assets to determine their source
- Determining marital/nonmarital components of assets
- Review, organize and analyze discovery including assistance with mandatory disclosure and responding to Requests for Production
- Analysis of income to establish ability to pay, child support and alimony
- Providing assistance in preparing deposition questions and interrogatories
- Assisting with negotiations at settlement conferences and mediations
- Providing expert witness testimony and assistance at hearings and trials
- Determining a standard of living in order to establish alimony or child support payments
- Valuing marital assets
- Determining the tax consequences of asset distributions and the tax effects of various scenarios for dividing the marital estate
