Business Owners: the articles.
Everything on the blog filed under Business Owners, newest first, with the practice page it belongs with.
- 01Colorado's Sworn Financial Statement: Filling Out JDF 1111 Correctly
- 02Value Depends on Definition: The Standard-of-Value Fight in Colorado Business Valuation
- 03Divorcing With a Business in Colorado: The Valuation Fight Inside Your Case
- 04The First Ninety Days: Temporary Orders in a Colorado Divorce
- 05A Balance Sheet Made of Promises: Executive Compensation in Divorce
- →Business Owner Divorce, the practice page
The Sworn Financial Statement is testimony, and it becomes Exhibit 1 at temporary orders and maintenance. How to complete JDF 1111 and its schedules as a business owner or executive without understating, overstating, or leaving something off.…
Colorado leaves the standard of value in divorce undefined — and that choice, not the percentage debate, is what decides whether marketability and control discounts apply to your company.…
When a business owner divorces in Colorado, the valuation is often the largest and most contested number in the case. Goodwill counts, the buy-sell agreement is not the last word, and the valuation date can move the result by seven figures.…
Between filing and decree, somebody pays the mortgage, runs the company, and funds the case. Temporary orders govern that interval — and for business owners, they set the trajectory of everything after.…
Bonuses not yet paid, awards not yet vested, deferred comp not yet distributable — property to divide, or income to share? For executives, the grant documents decide, and the drafting is the outcome.…
The appraiser's value for your company and the court's number for your income are built from the same cash flows. When nobody reconciles them, you pay for the same dollars twice.…
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