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Dividing Restricted Stock and Options in a Divorce: How Incentive Packages Promised During a Marriage Raise the Stakes

June 8, 2022 |

What is Your Business Worth in a Divorce

Restricted stock and stock options, often a valuable component of corporate compensation packages, create a challenge when dividing assets in a divorce. These assets, which are becoming a common incentive to lure and retain employees, give the employee spouse the right to buy stock in their company at a set price, at a future date. […]

Filed Under: Divorce, Property Division

Blog #76: Diamonds are Forever… Or Are They?

July 6, 2020 |

Written by: Dan O’Connell and Lindsey O’Connell Q: What Happens to the Rings When the Relationship Doesn’t Last? A: I once had a client who received a wedding ring from her fiancé when they got engaged. She later found out that he was a fraud. It turns out he had lied to her about many important, material facts […]

Filed Under: Divorce, General, Property Division Tagged With: divorce, engagement, engagement ring, gift, jewelry, marriage, rings, wedding

Blog #68: Affairs and Dissipation Claims

November 16, 2017 |

Q: I just found out my spouse is having an affair.  I also found out that my spouse has used our money to support the affair in the form of gifts, dates, and so on.  My spouse says he wants a divorce.  What can be done about the money that has been spent on the […]

Filed Under: Custody, Divorce, Property Division Tagged With: affair, custody, dissipation, divorce, letty van ert, property division

Q&A Blog #48 – How is a business valued for the purposes of a divorce?

August 15, 2013 |

 By: Letty M-S Van Ert   Q:        I am a business owner.  I am now getting a divorce.  Is my business an asset that has to be valued for the divorce? How is a business valued for purposes of a divorce?     A:         Generally yes, a business is an asset that must be valued during […]

Filed Under: Property Division

Q&A Blog #42 – How does Minnesota law treat taxable retirement assets with regard to a divorce settlement?

December 18, 2012 |

 

 

By: Letty M-S Van Ert

 Q:        How does Minnesota law treat taxable retirement assets with regard to a divorce settlement?

 

A:         The Minnesota Supreme Court answered this question in the case of Maurer v. Maurer, 623 N.W.2d 604 (Minn. 2001).  In that case, a husband and wife

Filed Under: Property Division

Family Law Q&A Blog #14 – Is Minnesota a community property or non-community property state?

February 15, 2012 |

By: Letty M-S Van Ert


Q: What is the difference between a community property state and a non-community property state?  What is the impact on a divorce?

Filed Under: Property Division

Family Law Q&A Blog #13 – What is the difference between marital property and nonmarital property?

February 10, 2012 |

By: Letty M-S Van Ert


Q: What is the difference between marital and nonmarital property?  What is the impact on a divorce?

 

A:   In Minnesota, all property acquired by either spouse during the marriage is

Filed Under: Property Division

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