#6: Valuing Assets in a Divorce
On July 19th
This is the sixth installment of “Divorce. What You Need to Think About from a Financial Perspective”, which can be downloaded for FREE from makara-assoc.com.
After the discovery phase, the hard work of valuing the assets will begin.
One of the first things to consider is pre-marital assets. If these exist, identify them and move forward. If you are the spouse that didn’t own those asset(s) going into the marriage, you should know that fighting over them is time consuming and expensive. If the item is truly a pre-martial asset, you will most likely lose the fight, and only end up incurring additional legal fees.
Some of the assets that are easy to value include:
