With our CFL course, it’s not who you know, it’s what you know that helps you resolve financial matters in divorce cases. You can rely on your knowledge to fix or even prevent mistakes. However, nobody’s perfect. Sometimes, an oversight can lead to further litigation. That happened in the recent Texas appeals case of Woodward…
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Our CFL course taught you a lot about disputes involving marital and business partnerships. What happens when former spouses are now business partners, and one of them wants to increase a line of credit to expand the business? The Florida appeals court case of Lapcuic v. Lapciuc tackled that challenge. Case Facts Isaac Lapcuic…
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Our CFL Credential has taught you the ins and outs of settling alimony payments. Like in the recent Maryland appeals court case of Brunk v. Brunk, it’s best to include clear and solid evidence to support alimony requests. In the case, the ex-wife sought rehabilitative alimony while she looked for a new job and addressed…
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As you learned in the CFL course, handling prenuptial agreements after a divorce requires skill and care. You want to make sure you follow proper procedures, ideally, even before a couple ever signs one (if possible), because major disputes can occur if you don’t. That’s what happened in the recent Florida appeals court case of…
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Before you negotiate a strategy for dividing executive compensation, you should have a solid understanding of it and the process involved. In our recent webinar, Thomas T. Field of the Illinois law firm Beermann LLP and AACFL Advisory Faculty Member Jim Godbout, Principal at CliftonLarsonAllen discussed executive compensation. They went over the following forms of…
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The CFL course taught you the most practical ways to divide property in divorce settlements to avoid lengthy battles. Sometimes errors occur along the way, so an agreement that irons out every wrinkle will prevent confusion later. The recent Texas appeals court case of Garcia vs. Ruiz is an example of how property division mistakes…
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The CFL Credential has helped you with several financial aspects of divorce cases, from dividing stock options to calculating child support payments and separating property. One sometimes overlooked part of the law are cases that involve penalty provisions to fine a party as a form of punishment. In divorce matters, one spouse intends to use…
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In the CFL course, you learned a lot about property division, including an increasingly common part of “gray” divorces, retirement pensions. Oftentimes, in appeals cases like the Texas court saw recently with Burnett v. Burnett, a spouse won’t share their pension per the divorce decree, leading to a return to court. In this matter, the…
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