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

Executive compensation can include stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights, long-term 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 include: 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.