What is a High Net Worth Divorce?


Unlike alimony, when you get paid as part of equitable distribution, there is no powers of contempt. What you get is a money judgment. So if the spouse doesn’t pay you, you get an order for a judgment. You get the judgment, great, now you got to collect on it. And if they don’t have liquid assets, how are you collecting? That’s what makes it more complicated.

Valuation issues are usually The bigger issue there, if you just have assets and you’re worth a hundred million dollars sitting in cash, that’s the easiest divorce you want. Here’s 50 million to you, 50 million to the other person. I don’t care if it’s a hundred dollars. I’ll give us a thousand dollars. If everything’s sitting in cash, it’s easy.

But the problem that people say high net worth divorce, there’s no bright line. This is a high net worth divorce. Nor does it change anything. All it does is means it’s more complex and we handle those more complex issues based on our experience.

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