How the Valuation Dates of Different Assets Are Decided During Divorce

You think you want to keep the house. He says he’s more interested in his business. What will happen to the stock portfolio, retirement accounts, the vacant beachfront property and the art pieces you bought together?

It won’t be an easy task, but there’s no getting around it: Divorce requires the division of all your marital assets.

And, as you can imagine, in order to partition those assets properly, each must be assigned an accurate dollar value.

In divorce, the point in time in which an asset is assigned a dollar value is called its valuation date.

via How the Valuation Dates of Different Assets Are Decided During Divorce - Forbes.