Prenups have become more popular in recent years as people look to protect their assets in the event their marriages don’t work out.
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From the mid-2000s to now, mediation has become an accepted part of the divorce process.
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The challenges family law attorneys are facing have been induced by the 2022 economic upheaval.
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The coronavirus has added a dose of anxiety and emotional distress that is causing an unprecedented level of conflict between spouses and ex-spouses, according to family law attorneys.
Read MoreMore than a quarter century has elapsed since the landmark Indiana Supreme Court decision in Yoon v. Yoon, 711 N.E.2d 1265 (Ind. 1999), distinguishing personal goodwill from enterprise goodwill in divorce cases.
Unlike the income and market approaches, the asset approach is rarely applied to functioning businesses. That approach and its underlying methods frequently correspond with “net book value,” or a lower conclusion of value than yielded under the income or market approaches.
An ex-husband’s claims that his ex-wife engaged in criminal activity at her job are protected by the First Amendment, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
Ruling on an issue of first impression, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has upheld the award of a pre-embryo to a woman in a divorce case, laying out a test for trial courts to apply when faced with disposition of a pre-embryo.
A mother who appealed the denial of her requests to relocate to Utah with her child has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that the trial court erred in its custody determinations.
The market approach is a commonly applied approach to business and professional practice valuations in divorce. Is the market approach reliable? It depends on the data.
A trial court should have admitted a woman’s prenuptial agreement into evidence in her divorce case, and its failure to do so resulted in a “flagrant injustice,” a split Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in a Tuesday reversal.
A wife’s ability to refinance secured debt on farm property and make an equalization payment made it “just and reasonable” to award all real estate to her in a divorce case, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Tuesday.
A dissolution decree did not award the equal parenting time that a mother and father had agreed to, resulting in a reversal from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
A mother whose request to relocate to California with her minor child was denied has failed in her bid for relief from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
A husband was entitled to summary judgment on whether cryptocurrencies owned through he and his wife’s company were subject to division in a property settlement agreement, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Friday in reversing a trial court’s decision.
The closest analog to IP mediation, in my opinion, is divorce mediation.
A trust providing regular payments to a woman should be considered a marital asset and included in the assets under consideration for division in the woman’s divorce case, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Wednesday.
There are several aspects to a military divorce that are distinguishable from an everyday divorce matter.
Valuing businesses and professional practices in divorce cases is more an art than a science. Yet developments over the past three decades bring more conformity to the process.
There’s an emotional cost that comes with a divorce, but the process also involves dollars and cents.
A father challenging a parenting time order and the division of marital assets has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana to overturn the final order in his divorce case.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed in part, but also reversed part of a trial court’s ruling that erred by excluding a Parent Plus Loan liability from a marital estate.
The children of divorced parents can’t take their mother’s dog to their father’s home during his parenting time, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in reversing a trial court’s order.
Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel,” a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th century law governing the treatment of slaves.