Las Vegas Divorce Law Blog

THIS WAS NEVER POSTED ON THE LIVE VERSION BECAUSE VINCE NEVER REPLIED TO MY EMAIL. CJ. Attorney Vincent Mayo, Chairperson of the State Bar of Nevada Family Law Section, recently presented on Evidence in Family Law at the 2023 Family Law Conference in South Lake Tahoe. The annual conference was held on March 1 -4,… Continue Reading

THIS WAS NEVER POSTED ON THE LIVE VERSION BECAUSE STEPH DID NOT REPLY TO MY EMAIL. CJ.     Stephanie Stolz was recently honored by the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada with the 2022 Volunteer Education Advocate Award. LACSN’s Educational Advocacy program provides assistance to children with learning difficulties due to Covid-19, or behavioral,… Continue Reading

Divorce matters for high-net worth individuals entail complicated issues. Many of these are financial in nature and can include luxury homes, vacations properties, investment accounts, and business ownership, to name just a few. In this article we discuss the aspects of business ownership in divorce proceedings and the important decisions that face every business owner…. Continue Reading

Going through divorce proceedings are some of the most challenging times in one’s life. The very nature of divorce is inherently stressful even if both spouses agree on dissolving the marriage. When one or both spouses are professionals it can be even more so. The necessity of dividing marital assets and agreeing on child related… Continue Reading

One of the most contested issues in divorce cases concerns alimony payments. Typically one party thinks they deserve it and the other party doesn’t want to pay it, or at least not the full amount that’s being asked for. In this article our Las Vegas divorce attorneys set the record straight on alimony payments. Temporary… Continue Reading

Bill Gates, the world’s fourth-richest person, and his wife, Melinda, recently announced that they are getting a divorce after nearly 30 years of marriage. They have an estimated combined net worth of $144 billion. The divorce was filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle, Washington. The divorce has captured public attention and has raised… Continue Reading

Not all assets in a divorce are as simple to divide as a bank account or a house. Some assets require complex valuation and additional legal hurdles in order to be properly distributed in divorce proceedings. Pensions and other retirement accounts raise a number of valuation issues, tax concerns, and legal technicalities. Divorcing spouses with… Continue Reading

There have been cases where one spouse wins a lottery or comes into another form of financial windfall during a Las Vegas divorce case. If you win the lottery or achieve some other significant financial upside, but are separated or in the middle of a Las Vegas divorce, what happens to your money? Do you… Continue Reading

Prenuptial agreements (also called antenuptial agreements or “prenups”) are no longer the exclusive concern of the rich and the famous. Today, they are an important consideration for any marrying couple, whether both spouses are income-earning or one spouse has significantly more wealth than the other. What many people don’t realize, until it’s too late, is… Continue Reading

Family comes in many forms. Many people consider their “immediate family” to include more than just the traditional “nuclear” structure and may involve cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. In many families, grandparents are just as involved in the upbringing of grandchildren as are the children’s direct parents. What happens if there is a conflict between… Continue Reading