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Over 14 million American workers now receive employee stock options -- a number similar to the workers who belong to labor unions. It's highly likely that most family lawyers will at some point represent a client who has or is entitled to some portion of this complicated aspect of marital property. The Family Lawyer's Guide to Stock Options is a handy, practice-focused guide to all aspects of employee stock options and their equitable division in divorce.
The Family Lawyer's Guide to Stock Options provides comprehensive guidance on the valuation, taxation, and distribution of stock options upon divorce, including sample provisions for property settlement agreements. It begins with a discussion of how and when employee stock options are considered marital property through a review of major court cases. Following this, the authors discuss stock option terminology and how they are valued based on certain critical assumptions and how those assumptions are validated. Employee tax liability resulting from the exercise of stock options is an important factor that family lawyers must also address as part of any property settlement.
The book discusses how taxation differs between qualified incentive stock options and nonqualified options, incorporating new tax rulings and examples of how they impact the net proceeds from the exercise of options. If the options are marital property, the book covers the advantages and disadvantages of the two typical methods of distribution: the immediate offset approach and the deferred distribution method. The final chapter offers advice on considering stock options as income for alimony and child support cases. The overview of the issues when option income should be counted as part of gross income is followed by a review of major court cases dealing with the issue. It provides information on the use of a constructive trust to manage the use of employee stock options as part of child support.
The Family Lawyer's Guide to Stock Options provides time-saving tools for the family lawyer facing a divorce case involving employee stock options, including:
ABA Book Publishing
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6 x 9 Paper + CD-ROM
4/18/2007 12:00:00 AM
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