Talk to your divorce lawyer about the income tax issues. Make sure that any tax considerations are clearly spelled out in the divorce decree, and that the decree is in keeping with the tax laws. Make sure it's clear who the capital gains belong to.
If your divorce is not final by the end of 2025, you need to come to an agreement about whether you will file jointly or separately for 2025. Either way you need to cooperate with each other for tax filing.
It would be a good idea to get a tax professional to work with your lawyer, and to review the divorce decree before it's finalized. We often see questions from divorced people who have tax problems because their divorce decree has a provision that's not permitted under the tax laws, or because a tax issue was not addressed in the decree. Many divorce lawyers, and family court judges, know a lot less about tax law than they think they do.
