High-Asset & Complex Divorce
Boutique representation in Connecticut's most complex dissolutions, executive compensation, business interests, prenuptial agreements, and Gold Coast estate matters.
Boutique representation in Connecticut's most complex dissolutions, executive compensation, business interests, prenuptial agreements, and Gold Coast estate matters. Attorney Tara J. Galbo has more than 25 years representing Connecticut clients in high-asset & complex divorce matters from the firm's Milford office at 88 High Street.
High-asset divorce in Connecticut is a different exercise than a standard dissolution. The legal framework is the same, equitable distribution, statutory alimony factors, and the best-interest standard for custody, but the work of disclosure, valuation, and proof is materially more involved.
The firm represents executives, business owners, and professionals whose dissolutions involve restricted stock, deferred compensation, carried interest, hedge-fund or private-equity ownership, closely held businesses, family trusts, generational wealth, and multi-jurisdictional real estate. Engagement is selective and substantive; matters are prepared with the experts a court will recognize, business appraisers, forensic accountants, and compensation analysts, assembled early.
What this practice handles
- Executive compensation: RSUs, options, deferred comp, carried interest
- Closely held business and professional-practice valuation
- Family trusts, generational wealth, and discretionary distributions
- Prenuptial and postnuptial agreement drafting and enforcement
- Multi-jurisdictional real estate and asset tracing
- Forensic accounting and lifestyle analysis
- Collaborative divorce and select mediation
- Complex custody for private-school and travel-heavy households
High-Asset & Complex Divorce in Connecticut, step by step
Engagement & conflict check
A paid one-hour case consultation reviews the marital estate at a high level. If engagement is offered, conflict checks and a written fee agreement follow.
Disclosure & valuation strategy
Counsel maps the marital estate, identifies the experts the court will recognize, and proposes a discovery and valuation plan tailored to the asset mix.
Settlement architecture
Most high-asset cases resolve by negotiated agreement. The work of disclosure and valuation done early is what makes a quiet, defensible settlement possible.
Trial readiness
If trial is required, counsel is prepared to try it. A lawyer credibly ready to try the case negotiates from a stronger position.
Cost and timeline, honestly
Complete disclosure, valuation work, and settlement architecture.
Forensic work, expert testimony, and partial or full trial.
Trusts, multi-jurisdictional assets, or fraud allegations.
- Number and complexity of business interests
- Executive compensation (RSU/PSU/ISO/deferred comp) coverage
- Trust interests and beneficial-ownership disputes
- Forensic accounting and tracing of separate property
- Coordination with tax, estate, and corporate counsel
Estimates only, every matter is priced after a paid consultation.
Where these matters are typically heard
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Tara J. Galbo, Esq.
Admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1999, Attorney Galbo handles high-asset & complex divorce matters personally from the firm's Milford office, appearing in the New Haven, Fairfield, and Ansonia-Milford judicial districts.
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Attorney-reviewed by Tara J. Galbo, Galbo Family Law, LLC · Last reviewed June 2026. This page is general legal information about Connecticut family law and is not legal advice for any specific situation.