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Retirement tax questions
No one here is really qualified to answer that question. I would point out, having gone through my own divorce, that depending on your state laws, you may not be entitled to any of his premarital contributions or their resulting gains. On the other hand, if you stayed home and raise children and were denied your own income, one could make an argument that you deserved a larger share of the present value of the retirement account. This is why you pay an attorney.
Depending on your state law, and which judge your case gets assigned to, there will be some formula that is routinely used, and that’s what you should call “easy money.“ If you think you deserve more, that’s “hard money“ because you will probably have to go to court and fight for it, and you have to consider the emotional and financial cost of doing that. Your attorney should be advising you on all of this.