Divide and Conquer: Stock Option Considerations

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Divorce finance analysis has many flavors and variations. There is a feeling of confidence in working on parts of the analysis that have a straightforward trajectory. However, there are many phases of the process where the devil is definitely in the details and a deeper procedure is involved in trying to research and get a handle on the right information that applies to your client’s circumstances. One such area is stock options and restricted stock units.


Karen D. Sparks

JD, CDFA®

Karen D. Sparks, CDFA® J.D. is the principal and owner of Divorce Financial Strategists™. In her capacity as a certified divorce financial analyst®, Ms. Sparks is trained to provide expert financial services that are specifically targeted to the area of divorce and separation.  

Core practice areas include but are not limited to : Complete financial asset review and analysis, spousal and child support, settlement projections, tax implications for support, real property and investment assets, analysis of retirement accounts, real property offsets or buyout and other areas of asset distribution including post-divorce tasks are all handled with the specific goal of facilitating the divorce and separation process.

As part of her client engagements, Ms. Sparks has been a retained expert and trial expert witness for clients on the subject of marital standard of living, analysis and computation of separate and community property interests in real estate and valuation of business entities in order to determine income for support.  She is also the co-author of the Stress Free Divorce, volume one published in April 2017.

Ms. Sparks provides divorce financial analysis to services to individuals and couples and also provides consulting services to attorneys, mediators, alternative dispute resolution professionals and other family law service providers. 

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