Louisiana is a community property state, wherein spouses are considered joint owners of nearly all assets and debts acquired in marriage. In the event of a divorce, assets acquired during the marriage ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Location, location, location is not just vital in real estate. Where you live also can have critical tax implications for your taxes, especially for married couples. There are two very different kinds ...

The first step to be undertaken is to quantify all the assets owned by the couple, in their sole or joint names and held directly or indirectly. The next step is to categorize them as “marital” (for ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to equitably divide marital assets after a split. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have been married for eight years, and I’m starting the process of divorce. In the ...

Attorney Cheryl Arakaki joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss key legal issues in mid-life divorce including ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Q: Does an IRA inherited by a child become the child's separate property in Texas, thereby protecting the interest of the child in the event of a divorce? Is this answer applicable to other states? A: ...