This is an on-going series of important things to consider when dividing property to reach a settlement agreement.   Financial Assets Financial assets include cash, savings accounts, checking accounts, Certificates of Deposit, money-market accounts, stocks, bonds, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), mutual funds, and savings bonds. These assets may be more important to the non-working […]

You’ve sat down with your spouse and hammered out what you think is a pretty great settlement: you get to keep all of the property you really wanted and your future ex gets stuck with all of the debt.  Whether or not that agreement will hold up in court depends on a number of factors, […]