Discover the differences between common law and community property states in marital property division during divorce. Learn what counts as marital property.

“While not a wholesale replacement for other frameworks, when STMP is used in the right circumstances, it can offer a rare alignment of structure and substance.” Marriage is not simply a romantic ...

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), divorces and annulments were provisionally counted in the United States at 672,502 for the year 2023, which translates ...

Many people think divorce means they each can take half and walk away. But it doesn’t work like that. When a marriage ends in divorce, it is complicated to divide the property that the couple owned ...

In a community property state, the community assets and income of the non-debtor spouse can be liable for the judgments of the debtor spouse. This liability continues during the length of the marriage ...

My husband owns substantial properties, purchased before our marriage. I can't stop thinking about it. If he sells those properties during our marriage, does the cash generated from the sale turn into ...

Wisconsin’s marital property laws impact compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”). As discussed in other Ruder Ware CTA Focus Team insights, the CTA requires a “reporting company” to ...

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