High-Asset Divorce

Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of the late musician Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, has filed for divorce in California and is attempting to protect $450 million in assets from her husband. She married musician Isaiah Silver in June 2014. Court documents cite...

When an individual gets divorced in California, all of the property he or she accumulated during the marriage is considered to be the marital property of the couple. This means that, no matter who contributed to a retirement account during the marriage, the funds that...

Entrepreneurs in California and around the country sometimes have the mistaken belief that their businesses will be somehow exempt from property division should they go through a divorce. While setting up a corporation may protect the personal assets of shareholders...

California residents who are considering a divorce may want to learn more about potential financial fraud issues that can arise. While there are various forms of financial fraud, not all of them are necessarily easy to uncover. One of the forms of financial fraud that...

People have long known that divorce requires the careful division of a married couple's assets and property. Many California couples have spent a great deal of time documenting their finances so that a fair distribution of these assets can take place when the couple...

Many California residents rely on spousal or child support payments to make ends meet, and courts will often take steps designed to ensure their financial security. Courts may sometimes order that a life insurance policy be taken out by the party responsible for...

When California couples divorce, they may not consider how to handle claims with the Social Security Administration. Sometimes, spouses may choose to claim Social Security before full retirement age either by claiming against their own earnings history or that of the...

California residents who are seeing their marriages come to an end should conduct careful financial planning to reduce the fallout from their divorce case. In many cases, people become wrapped up emotionally and leave the financial consequences to be dealt with later....

California readers may have heard that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his estranged spouse Anne Wojcicki have quietly divorced following an eight-year marriage. The divorce was finalized by a Santa Clara County court in May. Brin and Wojcicki, who have two children...

California residents may have heard that a rich Russian businessman was ordered to pay his estranged wife $4.5 billion in a divorce settlement in 2014. After a recent appeal, the ex-husband now only has to pay about $609 billion. In 2008, the ex-wife filed divorce...