The Atlanta Lawyer September/October 2021 Vol. 20, No. 2 | Page 22

The Legal Minute : Divorce Court

Working with attorneys and professionals across practices in a divorce case .
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CAITLYN L . KERR , ESQ . Boyd Collar Nolen Tuggle & Roddenbery ckerr @ bcntrlaw . com
Collaboration in the practice of divorce law helps deliver high quality results for clients ’ unique and complex issues . Specialists can bring expertise to a divorce case and develop solutions tailored to clients ’ particular needs and goals . Divorce lawyers regularly work with these professionals to address clients ’ most complex issues .
Divorces often involve complicated financial issues that require the expertise of financial professionals . Consider a divorce case involving multiple kinds of retirement plans that need to be divided or transferred between the parties as part of the divorce settlement . The settlement agreement itself will require technical language for the division of the retirement accounts specific to each kind of plan . This
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