How Equity Compensation Is Divided in a California Divorce
RSUs, Stock Options, Performance Shares, Founder Equity, and Earnouts Introduction: Equity Compensation and California Divorce In most divorces, the marital estate is a house, a couple of retirement accounts, and whatever is left in checking. In the divorces we handle at our Beverly Hills and Los Angeles offices, the single largest asset in the marriage […]
Date of Separation in California: Why It Matters and How Courts Decide It
Ask ten divorcing couples when their marriage ended, and you will get ten different answers. The affair, the move to separate bedrooms, the night one of them slept in the guest room and never came back. None of those answers matters to a California family court. What matters is a single, legally defined date that […]