Guides & Insights
The money side of Irish divorce, in plain English — twenty honest guides.
How a Business Is Actually Valued in a Divorce
Multiples, maintainable earnings, the owner’s real remuneration - where the numbers come from and where the fights live.
Business & FarmCan My Spouse Take Half the Business?
The question every owner asks first - and the honest, formula-free answer Irish law gives.
Business & FarmFarm Divorce Without Selling the Land
The structures that keep holdings intact - and what they cost in honesty elsewhere.
Business & FarmThe Family Business, the Divorce and the Next Generation
When succession plans and separation collide - what survives, what gets scrutinised.
Business & FarmDivorce and the Professional Practice
Medical, dental, legal, accountancy - when the biggest asset is a practice that walks on two legs.
Money & ProvisionWhat “Proper Provision” Actually Means
The phrase that decides every Irish divorce - unpacked without the folklore.
Money & ProvisionThe Affidavit of Means: A Working Guide
What goes in, what happens when it’s wrong, and why it’s testimony rather than paperwork.
Money & ProvisionMaintenance After a Long Marriage
Careers set aside, earning gaps built over decades - how the law prices them.
Money & ProvisionLump Sum or Monthly Payments?
Certainty versus flexibility, separation versus connection - choosing the structure deliberately.
Money & ProvisionNo Clean Break: Can Your Ex Really Come Back for More?
Ireland’s most unsettling divorce rule, and how well-built settlements live with it.
Assets & DisclosurePensions: The Forgotten Asset
Often worth more than the house, traded away for less - the case for taking pensions seriously.
Assets & DisclosureHiding Assets in a Divorce: How It’s Done and How It’s Caught
The classic patterns, the detection machinery, and what discovery does to the clever.
Assets & DisclosureAn Inheritance Arrived During the Marriage. Whose Is It?
Timing, use and integration - the three levers of every inherited-asset argument.
Assets & DisclosureThe Family Home: Every Option on the Table
Sale, transfer, buy-out, occupation - the full menu and how each actually works.
Assets & DisclosureCrypto, Options and Modern Assets in Divorce
Digital assets, share options, loyalty and carry - disclosing and dividing what didn’t exist a generation ago.
Process & StrategyLiving Apart Under the Same Roof
The 2019 change that quietly rewrote the divorce clock - and what “separate lives” must actually look like.
Process & StrategyDivorce vs Judicial Separation: Choosing Deliberately
Two routes, different clocks and consequences - the sequencing decision explained.
Process & StrategyMediation When Real Money Is at Stake
What mediation can and can’t do in asset cases - from a solicitor with the actual Diploma.
Process & StrategyPrenups in Ireland, Honestly
Not binding, not worthless - what a prenup actually buys, and what it never will.
Process & StrategyThe In-Camera Rule: How Private Is Your Divorce?
What the privacy rule covers, what it doesn’t, and keeping your affairs out of the parish.