Category: Complex Financial Issues

Variations on a Double Dip Theme: The Moore Case

February 16, 2007 | Complex Financial Issues, Legal Perspective

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The Tennessee Court of Appeals issued a decision in May 2006 that addresses the lingering question of whether gains from the sale of marital property may be included in income for child support purposes: the old “double dip” dilemma. In Moore (2006), the partial owner of a cycle shop settled his divorce in 1991, retaining his interest in the business as part of his equitable distribution. Child support was set […]

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AAML Article & What’s Really Wrong with the Excess Earnings Method?

November 03, 2006 | Complex Financial Issues, Divorce, Legal Perspective

Icon for author Brian Vertz Brian Vertz

The recent edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers contains an interesting article describing various approaches to personal and enterprise goodwill. There is a handy list of which states consider goodwill (both types) to be separate property, which states consider goodwill to be marital property, and which states distinguish between the two types of goodwill. The third section of the article describes five different valuation approaches […]

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