Not surprisingly, many clients believe what their friends tell them and what they see on TV and Facebook. Unfortunately, it's best to actually know at least some of the law that governs the type of issue you have. If you had a complicated separate property issue, compounded by numerous transactions that may or may not create further problems, you would likely have no idea how those issues would be handled. Or if you have side businesses which add to your employment income, and you don't want to pay high spousal, well-- you're going to need a plan well in advance! Unfortunately, a client may just want to agree to shared visitation where one spouse never pays anything but the other spouse then has to pay increased support because there is not any child support offset? A typical client isn't going to know these things. Or, if you had a part time business that you owned years before you met your spouse, and then he started siphoning money out of the business wit...
