Discover how a recent Constitutional Court ruling clarifies the relationship between marriage, asset ownership, and estate ...

MP McQueen is a veteran journalist who has covered national and metro news, and has written and edited articles for legal and financial publications. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading ...

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), divorces and annulments were provisionally counted in the United States at 672,502 for the year 2023, which translates ...

Trusts are a cornerstone of estate planning, offering a versatile means of managing and transferring wealth across generations. For married couples, trusts provide a way to gift assets to their ...

My husband owns substantial properties, purchased before our marriage. I can't stop thinking about it. If he sells those properties during our marriage, does the cash generated from the sale turn into ...

The Connecticut Supreme Court held in a divorce case that retirement benefits from the defendant's law firm were too speculative to be marital property. But the decision split the court, with one of ...

In case of potential divorce (possibly within the next couple of years), would I have any claim to a house my spouse bought prior to our marriage? We are actively in the process of selling it, and ...

The Constitutional Court has ruled that antenuptial contracts entered into after a customary marriage are legally valid, ...

Property division in a divorce depends on whether the state follows community property or common law rules. In community property states, most assets acquired during the marriage belong equally to ...