 | 1. Divorce Source: CLASSIFYING AND VALUING THE GOODWILL OF A FRANCHISE BUSINESS IN A DIVORCE CASE
When goodwill can be realized through a sale of the business on the open market, there is general agreement that the goodwill constitutes divisible property in a divorce case. The goodwill is marital property, of course, only to the extent that it was acquired during the marriage.
... 100.0%
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         | 2. Divorce Source: UPDATE ON GOODWILL OF SOLO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
(©1999) In several recent decisions on the issue, courts have drawn a distinction between goodwill that is personal to the owner of the practice and goodwill that inheres in the business as an enterprise.
... 79.5%
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         | 3. Divorce Source: SOLE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES GOODWILL
(©1998) The goodwill of the husbands sole medical practice was properly included in the marital estate. In Yoon v. Yoon, the Indiana Court of Appeals refused to retreat from its position that the goodwill of
... 79.5%
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         | 4. Divorce Source: GOODWILL OF SOLO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
(©1997) The professional goodwill in a solo practice must be valued and excluded from the marital estate, but the going-concern value of the business and its enterprise goodwill may be included as marital
... 79.5%
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         | 5. Divorce Source: CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL GOODWILL
Few issues have divided American courts over the past 10 years as much as division of business and professional goodwill in divorce cases. Some courts and commentators claim that goodwill is nothing more than future earnings and that attempts to divide it are nothing more than a thinly disguised dem
... 79.5%
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         | 6. Divorce Source: A BREAKDOWN OF GOODWILL CASES BY THE TYPE OF BUSINESS INVOLVED
When litigating a case involving divisibility of professional goodwill, it is often helpful to review cases in which the court determined the divisibility of the goodwill of a similar business.
... 76.9%
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         | 7. Divorce Source: GOODWILL AS MARITAL PROPERTY
(©1998) The goodwill generated by the husband as manager of a captive insurance agency belonged to the insurance company and could not be included as marital property
... 59.0%
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         | 8. Divorce Source: Cases of Interest: Goodwill
Case law and analysis of divorce cases related to goodwill. Visit Other Cases of Interest
... 56.4%
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         | 9. Divorce Source: GOODWILL, MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT, AND MARITAL DEBTS AFTER SEPARATION
Restrictive agreement that defined the value of the husband
... 38.5%
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         | 10. Divorce Source: VALUATION OF GOODWILL OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
(©1997) The husband was trained in the highly specialized field of interventional cardiology, a subspecialty of invasive cardiology. During the marriage he established his own cardiology practice in Pitt
... 38.5%
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