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my approach to handling high net divorce
cases
is really twofold not every high net
divorce case is or needs
litigation you can have a
state that’s worth 100 million dollars
but has straightforward assets that are
easily dividable and not necessarily
something that someone will fight over
you can have a smaller estate
that has very complex assets
and is not easy to
understand or deal with that needs more
time to take by the experts and by the
parties in order to figure out what to
do with it so the first approach is
really to define what this height this
high net worth estate is and what assets
it’s holding are they simple are they
complex are they something that we can
deal with directly or determine cash
flow from is it just a w-2 wage earner
is someone a partner in a business that
has 50 other partners or is it just two
other partners and then once we’re able
to determine that we then
create a strategy of how we’re going to
deal with the case what experts are we
going to hire what discovery is needed
uh what methods of discovery are we
going to be taking the depositions of
the person’s most knowledgeable in the
business are we going to be taking the
depositions of business partners of key
employees
of the parties themselves and then what
documents do we need from that business
so that we understand and can give our
clients advice as to what a reasonable
settlement would look like or what a
judge or court would do in that
situation
Los Angeles, CA family law attorney Marc Garelick discusses his approach to handling high net-worth divorce cases.