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People make mistakes during divorce. There’s no such thing as three common, five common, 10 common. People make mistakes. People are human. So when you go through a divorce process, you have to realize you’re gonna do dumb things. But the most important thing is a listen to your attorney because they’ll tell you what

If you are concerned that your spouse is gonna take your child or children to another country where they have residency or they’re citizen of and not come back, the most important thing you need to do is file something in the courthouse in order to get a judge to prevent them from traveling. Because

International child custody issues are different than just dealing in the United States because people that want to go to different countries, people that want to travel, even internationally, there’s always a threat that they don’t come back. You have to deal with different rules, different things. There’s a thing called the Hague convention, and

At Brodie Friedman, we regularly handle divorce cases involving complex financial structures—none more intricate than those that include a family office. These privately held companies are typically designed to manage a family’s investments, wealth planning, and intergenerational assets. While they offer efficiency and control for affluent families, they can pose serious challenges when divorce enters

Kids going through divorce, a lot of people say, well, my kids need therapy. Not necessarily, your kid might be doing great and not affected. Other kids do need therapy because they need somebody, an outlet. But if the parents are on the same page, the outlet you let the kids teachers know, you let

Your one child might be great with it, and not even phase ’em. The other one is devastated by it, just by the breakdown of the family. So you have to understand each child’s needs and relate to that kid, and you also have to actually act like adults, the two parties, to understand that

The most important thing to do when you’re getting divorce is to understand your children’s needs. In most cases, if you have two good parents that love their children, the best thing you can do is shield them from the divorce, keep them out of it, the old adage, tell them that you love them,

Celebrity divorce cases, first off, really no different than any other case. The difference is, is that you might have the media involved. So when you have the media, social media, people now have access to social media. So they can put their divorce case out there if they want, but nobody’s interested. So the

Then once you get to a number, if you get to a number, is there enough assets on the other side of the table to make it even? Meaning if you have $20 million in assets and $15 million of that is a business, there’s only $5 million of other assets. So if one party

So when you’re dealing with these assets, in the cases where that are e-liquid, meaning a business, you’re not selling a business. You have to go rely on good experts and the expert has to do a valuation. And there’s different ways to value a business. There is the fair market value, there’s the income