Grey Divorce: Legal, Financial, and Practical Considerations; Asset Division, Liability Management
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE course will educate family law practitioners on issues surrounding the growing trend of couples aged 50 and over divorcing, referred to as "grey divorce." Though child custody typically is not an issue, long-term financial intertwining of assets and liabilities, as well as items of established sentiment, provide some of the many challenges counsel must navigate and overcome.
Outline
- Social, economic, psychological, and demographic exploration of grey divorce
- Legal issues particular to grey divorce
- Possible revocations of wills, trusts, and directives
- Retirement issues
- Financial
- Long-term care
- Real estate
- Insurance
- Grandparental visitation rights
- Practical guidance
- Documents to review
- Exploration of medical considerations
- Government benefits
- Practice guidance in grey divorce representations
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Exploration of grey divorce trends
- The specific application of general divorce expertise to grey divorce instances
- Discussion of particular items of importance in grey divorce legal representation
Faculty
Jason Abel
Attorney
Abel Hiller
Mr. Abel is an experienced advocate and trial lawyer. He represents both individuals and businesses in a wide... | Read More
Mr. Abel is an experienced advocate and trial lawyer. He represents both individuals and businesses in a wide variety of matters, including complex litigation before juries, judges, and arbitrators throughout the United States and the world. Mr. Abel also serves as outside general counsel for several companies, and he helped ‘write-the-book’ on legal procedure as a co-author of the ICLE Michigan Civil Procedure treatise. He started his legal career at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City. Moving back to Michigan in 2007, Mr. Abel joined Honigman LLP, where he was a Litigation partner and co-chair of the Family Law Department.
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Rebecca Abel, CFP, CDFA
Certified Financial Planner, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst
Oakpoint Investment Partners
Ms. Abel is a Certified Financial Planner CFP® and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst CDFA® and has been... | Read More
Ms. Abel is a Certified Financial Planner CFP® and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst CDFA® and has been helping clients navigate divorce and finance for over 25 years. She was the director and founder of the Women's Divorce Resource Center from 2012-2017, a 501(c)(3) with the mission of empowering and educating women going through the divorce process. Ms. Abel currently works with individuals and divorcing couples to assist with preparing financial reports to explore various asset splits as well as post-divorce financial planning/ money management. She has been awarded the 5 star wealth manager award nearly every year for the last decade. Ms. Abel is a fiduciary, fee based advisor.
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Henry S. Gornbein
Of Counsel
Lipson Neilson
Mr. Gornbein specializes in all areas of family law. He is a frequent writer for many bar related... | Read More
Mr. Gornbein specializes in all areas of family law. He is a frequent writer for many bar related publications. Mr. Gornbein is the creator and host of the award winning cable television series, Practical Law. He is the creator and host of the You Tube series, Gracefully Greying, with a newly launched website: http.//www.gracefullygreying.com. Mr. Gornbein is the author of the book, Divorce Demystified, Everything You Need to Know Before You File For A Divorce and the coauthor with forensic psychologist, Jack Haynes Phd of the book: Child Custody, A Complete Guide For Parents which is being published in July of 2020.
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Jack P. Haynes, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant
Jack P. Haynes, Ph.D.
Mr. Haynes is a Licensed Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant. He has 40 years of experience as... | Read More
Mr. Haynes is a Licensed Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant. He has 40 years of experience as forensic psychologist in both civil and criminal matters and has performed more than 3,000 Court Evaluations in more than 20 legal jurisdictions of Circuit Court, Family Court, Probate Court, District Court and Federal Court. Mr. Haynes has testified in Court as an expert witness in more than 175 cases and consults with attorneys regarding trial and cross-examination strategies, second opinions, review of professional work products, etc.
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