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For the family lawyer handling a case involving executive compensation, there can be a dizzying array of arrangements, plans, bonuses, and agreements that can seem overwhelming. Providing an invaluable roadmap to a complicated aspect of financial issues occurring in divorce, this book offers a practical guide to understanding, negotiating, and dividing assets that fall into the broad category of executive compensation. These assets are notoriously complex, and this book provides alerts to common pitfalls while providing the background to allow the lawyer to explain the issues to both clients and judges. Executive compensation can include stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights, long-term incentive plans, short-term incentive plans, cash bonuses, and supplemental executive retirement plans, among a myriad of other arrangements. This book looks at the executive compensation options where the benefit is in the category of nonqualified deferred compensation, providing guidance to enable family law practitioners to understand and navigate issues that arise with respect to deferred compensation. Topics addressed in The Executive Compensation Handbook include: The most common types of executive compensation Where to find essential information What constitutes property Separate versus marital property Valuation Issues in dividing assets Using executive compensation for support purposes Tax considerations Practical drafting tips and techniques This is an accessible reference manual for family lawyer on how to gather information, negotiate settlements, divide executive compensation plans, and draft separation agreements, as well as to use in drafting court financial statements where income needs to be disclosed and explained. In addition, family court judges can use this book for knowing the issues associated with dividing executive compensation and determining income when drafting orders in a dissolution of marriage or legal separation action, and the lawyer's staff can use it to understand the types of questions to ask clients and opposing parties when gathering documentation or creating first drafts of disclosure documents and discovery requests.

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Kristi Anderson Wells concentrates her practice exclusively on complex family law matters at the firm of Hunnicutt & Appelman PC in Denver, Colorado. She earned her B.A. in Journalism, her Juris Doctor and her LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Washington. She brings many years of experience in the areas of taxation, benefits, and executive compensation to the practice of family law. Her practice exists at the intersection of these areas of law, focusing on complex financial issues such as the division of executive compensation, retirement assets, and stock rights in divorce. Kristi has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a top practitioner in her field as well as being one of the top 50 female lawyers in Colorado. She is the Co-chair of the Colorado Judicial Institute’s Family Law Committee and a Fellow of the Academy of Collaborative Divorce Professionals. She serves as Vice-President of Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals, and is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, the American Bar Association, and the Colorado Bar Association, among other organizations. Kristi has written and lectured extensively on numerous subjects in tax, benefits, executive compensation, and family law, as well as having been a tax commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Jon Eric Stuebner earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and has a Master’s Degree in Education from Regis University. Jon Eric is an associate attorney with Griffiths Law PC in Lone Tree, Colorado. His practice is comprised of all areas of family law, including dissolution cases, allocation of parental rights, post-decree disputes, and appeals.

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