Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I empower divorcees to take control of their financial lives. In 2016, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt announced their separation ...

In our increasingly mobile society, it is not uncommon for couples to relocate numerous times throughout their marriage and acquire property and assets in different states. When a divorce dissolves ...

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 ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

WASHINGTON — There’s a sense of pride knowing that you have accumulated valuable assets to pass on to the next generation. There’s also fear in having to deal with your own mortality and losing ...

Sheryl and Xavier Davis married in 1993, but after six years and two children, their union became frayed — they stopped sleeping together, cut back on their social activities and opened separate ...

The state Supreme Court dodged questions about when life begins Wednesday when it ruled in a divorce case that previously frozen embryos a couple had created during their marriage are marital property ...

Wisconsin’s marital property law became effective on Jan. 1, 1986. The law was enacted to formally recognize that both spouses contribute to a marriage even though only one may earn the income. Under ...