Any income earned or assets acquired that year are counted more heavily than in later years.
And they wonder particularly how well assets acquired during the boom years ultimately will perform.
In America and most other European countries, divorce settlements take into account only those assets acquired during a marriage.
But not all the assets acquired are operating in the fashion Barclays expected.
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The assets acquired and the liabilities assumed from Lotus will be recorded at the date of acquisition, at their fair value.
He argued that Ecuadorian law, which automatically transfers assets acquired during marriage to the surviving spouse, should not be applied to his father's second marriage because it took place in New York.
Yukos Oil has been broken up and sold to Russian state owned energy companies, with the bulk of those assets acquired at a discount by Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia.
Despite the rebound in portfolio valuations, some LPs harbor doubts whether PE can continue to generate attractive long-term returns given the high prices paid for assets acquired in the early stages of the recovery.
So a rich man may have to cough up lots of money (including from assets acquired before the marriage, or inherited) to house and support a wife, especially if she is looking after the children.
In fact, although the agency is technically insolvent (ie, its liabilities exceed its assets), it probably has enough liquidity from insurance premiums, assets acquired when taking pension schemes over and investment income from its own portfolio to meet its obligations for many years to come.
Several of the formerly state-controlled assets he acquired did not go through the normal tender process.
The company recently restructured and sold most of its media assets and acquired Monitronics, a home-security company which is now its main focus.
This means that whatever assets are acquired by either spouse after marriage (other than inheritance) are presumed to be Community Property, unless the parties can show they intended otherwise.
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The SEC raised serious doubts, but apparently decided recently to take no further action, concerning asset values reported to investors in Stillwater Capital Partners, a money management firm whose assets were acquired by Gerova Financial Group last year.
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Management of these companies has, over time, caused the value of assets it has acquired to decrease so much that the cumulative value destroyed exceeds the value of all their assets currently.
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Others fear that its main impact will be to protect the wealthy and their often dubiously acquired assets.
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The assets to be acquired include a researcher and manufacturer of drugs for use in diseases relating to central nervous system.
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The official estimate of assets so far acquired in this way by managers and officials is 12% of all state holdings.
Naysayers counter that oil revenues dominate the revenue mix from acquired assets so any upside resulting from high natural gas prices in future will be limited.
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Three years later, he is now Deputy CEO of the Asian player, and since his arrival, the bank has acquired assets in 4 countries in the region.
If Spectrum Assets are not acquired due to a failure to obtain required regulatory approvals, Clearwire would, within 30 days following termination of the spectrum purchase agreement, repay the PIK Debenture plus interest at 6% per annum.
OnLive has finally issued an official statement after rumors of mass layoffs first leaked out earlier today, confirming that its assets have been acquired into a newly-formed company with what it claims is "substantial" financial backing.
Authorities dismantled Yukos in a closed auction, and its key assets were ultimately acquired by state-controlled Rosneft, which is slated to go public on the London Stock Exchange this summer in one of the largest initial offerings ever.
In 2001, American Airlines acquired the assets of bankrupt TWA using this approach.
Ghalib, a three-star general in the Indonesian military, told TIME that he has found no evidence that his former supreme commander wrongly acquired state assets.
Seeking expansion, he created Cinnovation through which he acquired overseas assets.
The scheme was intended to help make the listing appear legitimate in the eyes of ordinary Russians in contrast to the dubious privatisations by which Yukos and other private oil firms acquired their assets in the 1990s.
The company acquired the assets of Allied Capital below book value in April 2010, maintained its dividend of 35 cents per share for the past seven quarters and returned shareholders almost 25% per year on average since 2008 (with dividends reinvested).
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Back in 2004, a veteran Bingham trusts-and-estates partner named Lawrence Silverstein prepared a marital-property agreement for the McCourts that distinguished the couple's business assets, including the then-newly acquired Dodgers baseball team, from their personal assets, in order to protect the latter from possible business creditors.
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