Kristi Anderson Wells, Jon Eric Stuebner

The Executive Compensation Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

Stock Option Awards, Restricted Stock Grants, Cash Bonuses, Incentives and Other Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation in Divorce

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For the family lawyer handling a case involving executive compensation, there can be a dizzying array of arrangements, plans, bonuses, and agreements that can seem overwhelming. Providing an invaluable roadmap to a complicated aspect of financial issues occurring in divorce, this book offers a practical guide to understanding, negotiating, and dividing assets that fall into the broad category of executive compensation. These assets are notoriously complex, and this book provides alerts to common pitfalls while providing the background to allow the lawyer to explain the issues to both clients and judges.

Executive compensation can include stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights, longterm incentive plans, short-term incentive plans, cash bonuses, and supplemental executive retirement plans, among a myriad of other arrangements. This book looks at the executive compensation options where the benefit is in the category of nonqualified deferred compensation, providing guidance to enable family law practitioners to understand and navigate issues that arise with respect to deferred compensation.

Topics addressed in The Executive Compensation Handbook include:

• The most common types of executive compensation
• Where to find essential information
• What constitutes property
• Separate versus marital property
• Valuation
• Issues in dividing assets
• Using executive compensation for support purposes
• Tax considerations
• Practical drafting tips and techniques

This is an accessible reference manual for family lawyer on how to gather information, negotiate settlements, divide executive compensation plans, and draft separation agreements, as well as to use in drafting court financial statements where income needs to be disclosed and explained. In addition, family court judges can use this book for knowing the issues associated with dividing executive compensation and determining income when drafting orders in a dissolution of marriage or legal separation action, and the lawyer's staff can use it to understand the types of questions to ask clients and opposing parties when gathering documentation or creating first drafts of disclosure documents and discovery requests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Bar Association
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641052207
• Artikelnr.: 62321999

Autorenporträt

By Kristi Anderson Wells and Jon Eric Stuebner

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Definitions
Chapter 2: The Universe of Executive Compensation
Chapter 3: Essential Information and Where to Find It
Chapter 4: What Constitutes Property?
Chapter 5: What Is Separate versus Marital Property?
Chapter 6: How Do We Determine the Value?
Chapter 7: Client Considerations: Issues to Consider When Dividing the
Assets
Chapter 8: When Is Executive Compensation Income for Support Purposes?
Chapter 9: Tax Considerations
Chapter 10: Practical Drafting
Conclusion
End Notes
Appendices
Index