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How are assets divided in a legal separation?

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  • What you've got, what it’s worth and what you owe
  • Your direct financial contributions to the relationship such as wage and salary earnings
  • Your indirect financial contributions to the relationship such as gifts and inheritances from families
  • Non-financial contributions to your relationship such as caring for children and homemaking
  • Future requirements, factoring in your age, health, financial resources, care of children and ability to earn
  • Lawyers
  • Court officers
  • Valuers
  • Accountants to investigate the total value of the asset pool, complicated structures and asset protection schemes
  • Non-confrontational alternative dispute resolution (ADR) specialists such as mediators or arbitrators

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