Is Your Professional Degree Marital Property?
4 Pages Posted: 11 Aug 2020
Date Written: February 24, 2020
Abstract
The courts realize that some spouses put their loved one through an expensive and time-consuming degree program only to find themselves divorcing years or even decades later. In recognition of this, family courts sometimes determine that a professional degree is intangible property eligible for equitable distribution.
JEL Classification: K36, K10
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Petrelli, Thomas, Is Your Professional Degree Marital Property? (February 24, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3543715 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3543715
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