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when we have a property division dispute
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we’re immediately going to bring certain
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experts in depending on
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what the facts are of that case so i
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represent a lot of
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entrepreneurs you know small business
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owners and most of the time these
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businesses
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are created during dependency of the
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marriage so we’re going to need to get a
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valuation expert to determine what is
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the value of the company
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and then how is that going to be you
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know once we’ve got a number on it
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we’ve also got the question then of how
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how is it going to be divided so are
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you know are both spouses involved in
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the business is just one spouse involved
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in the business
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uh how do we go about dividing it those
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are going to be significant issues
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if we’ve got a commingling of separate
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and community property let’s say
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in that same situation you sold the
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business but the business was actually
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owned prior to marriage
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and they have another business that was
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started during the
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during the marriage you can end up with
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a co-mingling there so in those
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situations
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we’re going to bring in tracing experts
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that are going to look at things and try
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to trace
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what is community and what’s separate so
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the list goes on
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on the different types of experts that
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we might need to bring in
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depending on what’s involved in the case
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but that’s the starting point for us and
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bringing them in early
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rather than late so you have a better
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understanding of where things are
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that’s going to help you in trying to
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resolve the case earlier
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and take out the necessity of having to
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go to trial