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Tips for Divorcing Parents: Prepare Asset

If you are divorcing parents, your attorneys can assist you with preparing schedules, but make sure you don’t leave anything out. If you are unsure about the relevance of anything, ask your attorney. The advice, approach and preparation in the divorce process by your attorneys with respect to maintenance and your matrimonial property regime in particular will be based on this. You will hurt your own case if you withhold information, as it is almost inevitable that this will be discovered at some stage.Author: Murray Taylor

Benita Ardenbaum

Director & Founder

Benita Ardenbaum is the director and founder of Benita Ardenbaum Attorneys. Benita is passionate about family law and has worked in this field for 27 years. Benita provides an integrative and client centred approach to family law. Benita’s expertise includes being able to take complex disputes, simplify them and provide a strategy to resolve them. She is a qualified mediator and has extensive experience in litigation.

Benita has an established international practice. Benita is a member of the international Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). Benita has extensive experience in South African and International Divorces including complex financial divorces and divorces where there are disputes relating to children.

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