How Will Our Retirement Assets Be Divided in Divorce?
When clients come in to talk with us about divorce, we are often asked many questions about retirement assets. Often, only one spouse has retirement assets and the other spouse is concerned that he/she will lose the right to a share of those assets if they get divorced. This is often the case with a stay-at-home parent, who gave up his/her career to raise the parties’ children. We hear from many of these potential clients that their spouse told them they had no right to their retirement assets if they get divorced because he/she did not contribute anything to those assets. This is simply not true. In New Hampshire, all assets are “marital assets”. This includes assets that are titled to one spouse individually and…
