What I'd like to know is if most of these costumes are made for and worn by her and her daughter and thus proof of ownership, it therefore should NOT be shared property unless HE has been wearing the items himself as well. His lawyer can not make her sell the costumes. If she sells the costumes then the money becomes shared property but until then, again, unless he wears them as well, they are her's. All commissioned costumes need to be sold to the ones that commissioned them then that money is shared property. All costumes not sewn for anyone in particular or a customer backed out would be sold and money becomes shared property. It sounds like she needs another lawyer and if she doesn't have one she needs to try to find a pro bono (sp?) one. If the husband is the one filing for divorce for reasons of another woman then he is in the hot seat position and he should be making the concession. There is one thing that one SHOULD NOT do is find physical ways to get even. One may be angry at the jerk but burning clothes, destroying their stuff will not put the judge's or judge advocate 's mood to your side. And if children are involved do not act like a child or bad mouth the other person in front of the child as there is enough problems the child has to work through emotionally with a divorce.
De Personal opinion and not a lawyer. -----Original Message----- Heather said: >Just a brief idea: the method of valuation depends on the purpose. >If you were setting a value to something for insurance, that would >different from estimating what to charge for a commission, etc. It >seems to me (but IANAL) that in the context of a divorce, the key >question is "what is the liquidatable value of this property?" Spoken like finance professional. Also, Kathy, you are selling used clothing, and not your time & effort. As Heather says, that would be considered in the replacement cost of each item. During your term of ownership, you've used up some portion of the original value of each of these assets. What you are recouping now is the, unfortunately termed, "salvage value" of the items. No one has mentioned this side: If you are trying to value these costumes and keep them, then you'd certainly want to price them as used, low value, unsaleable items for purposes of sharing out the assets of the marriage. --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
