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When valuing assets in a family law case, in order to do so, most of the time you have to hire an expert. That expert will then go ahead and help facilitate the value of whether it’s a business in any type of economic world, whether it’s real estate, you would hire an appraiser to

We tell parents all the time, tell our clients that are parents, not to involve your children in the litigation. This is an issue between you and your spouse. The children didn’t ask to be in the middle of it. Do not put them in the middle of it. It’s not good for them. Now,

Clients approach today’s divorces sometimes with skepticism and with uncertainty with respect to how should we divide our assets, which assets do I want to keep, and which assets do I want my spouse to keep. Uncertainty in the market affects decision-making with respect to assets and liabilities, and we try to manage their expectations

When parties get divorced or are going through the divorce process and one of the parties is a sponsor for the other party, the parties need to look at would the sponsoring party be able to sponsor the other party once they’re divorced? Will it affect their immigration status? Will it affect them obtaining their

A party should consider an appeal if that party or the lawyer believes the judge made an error, made a legal mistake that requires reversal on appeal. There are different standards of law on appeals. There are different standards for the appellate court to look at. It could be a legal mistake that the judge

https://youtube.com/shorts/z8rZgA7WawI?feature=share Forensic accountants serve as our expert witnesses in the courtroom. What that means is the forensic accountant will be retained early on in the case, will obtain the documentation regarding the assets and the liabilities. The forensic accountant will put together their charts, their trial notebooks. The forensic accountant is essentially our eyes and

In cases involving family businesses, real estate portfolio, or professional practices, the best practice is to obtain the services of a forensic accountant. The forensic accountant would ask for various documents and would speak with the business owner and potentially other employees of the business in order to obtain values and valuations for those assets

When parents live in different cities, the most common issue that arises is which parent’s address will be used for school purposes. The next issue is the time-sharing schedule. If a child is living with one parent, but the other parent lives too far away, how will that child get to school the next day?

Judges have a lot of discretion, and discretion is a very broad word that essentially means the judge can do almost whatever they want within the confines of the law. There’s a lot of gray areas when you go to court. It’s very important for the clients to realize that while every client, when they

The biggest misconception that people have about divorce lawyers is that the divorce lawyers are just out to take their money and look at them as a blank check. We at Brodie Friedman don’t look at a client as a blank check. We try to address their issue as efficiently as possible, not to drive