News & Analysis as of September 17, 2024

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Divorce is the formal legal dissolution of a marriage. The divorce process implicates many diverse areas of the law including, but not limited to, real estate, wills and trusts, child custody, and tax.

The Current Real Estate Market: And We Thought Divorce was Crazy.

Fox Rothschild LLP on 5/16/2024

One of the things young lawyers are taught when they begin to practice is that law school offers no training in how to manage client expectations. When clients search for lawyers they typically do so expecting justice and to...more

Valuing Real Estate in Divorce Cases

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC on 9/6/2022

Washington State divorce laws provide that in every case the trial court must order a “just and equitable” distribution of the parties’ property and liabilities, whether community or separate. RCW 26.09.080. This includes...more

Judge Can’t Just Pick A Real Estate Appraisal He Likes Without A Hearing

Fox Rothschild LLP on 8/30/2022

Often, people resolve the issue of the marital home with one party buying the other out. While people often agree on the value of a home to use to calculate the buyout, sometimes, they can’t agree. In that case, people often...more

Buying Out A House In Divorce. Update Comps!

Fox Rothschild LLP on 2/12/2021

This will be short, for once. Divorce often involves one spouse buying out another from the marital residence. Best advice was, and still is, home values are such that paying for an appraisal can be useful. But of course,...more

Divorce financial statements: Do not overstate or understate values

Stange Law Firm, PC on 4/2/2018

In a divorce, courts are to divide marital property in a just manner when considering all the factors in an equitable jurisdiction. To divide marital assets in a just manner, courts need to know the value of the marital...more

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