In most states, assets -- including retirement accounts -- built during marriage are considered "marital property" and can be ...

Equitable distribution orders often direct the payment of money from one former spouse to the other. And normally money judgments are entirely enforceable during an appeal, unless the appellant gets a ...

In olden days, which is to say about 20 years ago, divorce clients would see their lawyers and discuss the family business as just that, the family business. It could have been an insurance company or ...

Most family law practitioners are familiar with property division in their own states, but confusion ensues when a couple moves from one jurisdiction to another, from a community property state to an ...

Harriet Newman Cohen and Tim James of Cohen Hennessey Bienstock & Rabin discuss the Equitable Distribution Law and the courts' justification for such differential treatment of certain forms of marital ...

RALEIGH, NC — A North Carolina trial court improperly relied on non-economic marital misconduct when determining the equitable division of marital property. The North Carolina Court of Appeals vacated ...

KNOXVILLE, TN, UNITED STATES, February 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Navigating the complexities of property division in East Tennessee requires a deep and ...