Going through a divorce is rarely easy. Challenges can still arise even when both spouses want the divorce and agree on most aspects. When both spouses cannot see eye-to-eye on virtually anything, those challenges increase, and the stress can be overwhelming. If your divorce is one of those relatively rare cases where everything appears to be going amicably, you will no doubt still have questions and concerns regarding how marital assets will be divided.
Getting a handle on the marital assets to be divided and understanding the difference between marital and non-marital assets can make the process much easier. Separate, or non-marital assets, are those that one spouse had prior to the marriage and gifts or inheritances given to one spouse before or after the marriage. This is true unless those separate assets are commingled with marital assets or marital funds are used to make improvements or repairs.