High Asset Divorce

When a marriage includes a business, real estate, retirement accounts or significant investments, the divorce turns on valuation, tax and the line between marital and separate property. Getting those right protects your future for years after the decree.

We have represented clients in multimillion-dollar divorces, including doctors, sales professionals and other lawyers. We explain the law in plain terms and help you make each decision with the numbers in front of you.

What makes a high-asset divorce different

• Valuing a business or practice, often with an independent appraiser, and deciding who keeps it
• Separate versus marital property: what you owned before the marriage or inherited is generally yours, but its growth during the marriage is marital, and mixed accounts need tracing
• Retirement accounts and pensions, which are divided by a separate court order so no tax penalty is triggered
• Taxes: two assets with the same value today can carry very different tax bills when sold
• Debt: marital debt is divided too, and a new budget has to carry it
• Maintenance and child support when income is irregular, high or tied to a business

Mediation, to save time and money

If both spouses can work together, mediation gives you more control over the agreement, keeps your finances private and usually costs far less than a trial. Our attorneys can represent you in mediation or serve as the neutral mediator for both of you; when we mediate, we represent neither side.

Talk with a high-asset divorce lawyer

From our Greeley office we represent family law clients along the Front Range and across Colorado. Call our office or message our attorneys to go over your situation. See also our divorce and family law page.