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Tax forms and calculator used to determine a business owner’s income for child support

How Is a Business Owner’s Income Determined for Child Support in Washington?

Child support in Washington runs on income, and for most parents income is easy: look at the paystub. A business owner is different. The owner

Reviewing business financials on a tablet, checking the double dip between the valuation and maintenance

The Double Dip: Can the Same Earnings Set the Business Value and the Maintenance Award?

Here’s the objection every business owner’s lawyer eventually makes. The court valued the business by capitalizing its earnings and awarded the other spouse half that

Professional office team at work, the kind of practice whose goodwill is divided in a Washington divorce

Enterprise vs. Personal Goodwill in a Washington Divorce: What Is Divisible?

In most states, divorce courts split business goodwill into two piles: enterprise goodwill, which belongs to the business and gets divided, and personal goodwill, which

Two people shaking hands over paperwork after agreeing on a business buyout in a divorce

Will I Have to Sell the Business to Buy Out My Spouse?

Divorces involving a family business raise questions most people have never had a reason to ask. This post is part of a series answering the

Owner signing business documents, tracing a business started before marriage in a Washington divorce

I Started My Business Before We Married. Is It Still Mine?

Divorces involving a family business raise questions most people have never had a reason to ask. This post is part of a series answering the

Owners working late in their family restaurant, the kind of family business divided in a Washington divorce

What Happens to Our Family Business in a Washington Divorce?

Divorces involving a family business raise questions most people have never had a reason to ask. This post is part of a series answering the

Small business storefronts on a lit sidewalk, the kind of family business divided in a Washington divorce

Divorce Involving a Family Business in Washington

When one spouse owns a business, or both do, the divorce changes shape. The business is usually the biggest asset, the main source of income,

Business valuation report pages flagged with sticky tabs, ready to read and question in a divorce case

How to Read a Business Valuation Report in Your Divorce

A business valuation report just landed in your divorce case. It’s long, it’s technical, and one number in it may decide the biggest financial issue

Hands working a calculator, like the business valuation assumptions and judgment calls behind a divorce appraisal

The Judgment Calls Hiding Inside Your Business Valuation

Business valuation looks like math. Divide cash flow by a rate, get a value. But nearly every input in that math is a professional judgment

Professionals reviewing financial documents, like the business valuation methods appraisers use in a divorce

The Three Ways Appraisers Value a Business in Divorce

Every business valuation report, no matter how thick, rests on three basic approaches: income, market, and asset based. The appraiser usually runs more than one,

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