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When Your Client Refuses to Follow Your Advice

Even though your CFL Designation for Divorce Practitioners gives you the requisite financial knowledge to competently and advantageously draft your clients’ property settlement agreements, your knowledge alone is insufficient if your client refuses to take his or case seriously and follow your advice. Such apparently is what happened in Barnhart v. Barnhart, a case ultimately…

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What Defines the Need for Alimony?

One of the most contentious situations you face as a family law practitioner is when one of your high-asset divorce clients likely will have to pay alimony or one of your less financially advantaged clients likely will require alimony. Alimony negotiations tend to be some of the most argumentative and acrimonious divorce conflicts, and while…

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New Wrinkles in the Acceptance of Benefits Doctrine

As a family law practitioner, one of the things you often counsel your clients about is their likelihood of prevailing in an attempt to modify their existing divorce decree, child support order, property settlement agreement, etc. Almost invariably, their basis for wanting to modify a previously entered court order is their desire to obtain additional…

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How to Cross-Examine a Financial Expert

Over the past two weeks we discussed when to add a forensic accountant to your family law team and how to effectively work with him or her once (s)he is on board. This week we shift the focus from your side of the divorce case to that of your opponent. More specifically, how to bring…

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What You Need to Know About Bitcoin – Part II

Last week we discussed Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in general, focusing on what they are and their ever-increasing usage by consumers to buy merchandise and by merchants to get paid. We also discussed how digital currencies are used extensively for darker purposes, such as to launder money or hide assets, often during a divorce. This…

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