A small private-client practice for complex estates, business owners, and the spouses who built lives alongside them.
Schedule a Confidential ConsultationA high-asset divorce is not a routine case. When closely-held businesses, executive compensation, restricted stock, and complex estates are involved, the financial consequences will outlast the marriage by decades. We represent both earning and non-earning spouses with the same rigor: quiet, methodical work, built around a settlement that holds up.
A high-asset divorce in Michigan is not one case — it is six or seven specialized cases happening at once. Each one needs the right professional doing the right work in the right sequence.
Closely-held companies, medical and dental practices, professional firms, and partnerships require formal valuation under one of three accepted methodologies. We work with credentialed business appraisers and challenge undervaluation when it occurs.
Restricted stock, stock options, deferred compensation, and clawback provisions are marital assets when earned during the marriage — but only when properly identified, traced, and modeled against vesting schedules. Equity compensation is one of the most frequently miscounted asset classes in Michigan divorce.
When financial records are incomplete or accounts have moved unexpectedly in the months before filing, we engage forensic accountants to trace transfers, identify undisclosed accounts, and document patterns that affect equitable distribution.
Oakland County's 6th Circuit Court is a public docket. For clients whose privacy and reputation are part of what they are protecting, we resolve cases through confidential mediation and arbitration whenever the facts allow.
Drafting, review, and — when necessary — challenging the enforceability of agreements that were signed without full disclosure or under conditions Michigan courts will not uphold.
Private school tuition, trust fund structures, and parenting arrangements for households with significant assets require advocacy that goes beyond the standard child support formula.
The work in a high-asset divorce looks different from each side of the table — but the rigor is the same. We represent earning spouses protecting a business, a practice, or years of equity compensation. We represent non-earning spouses who need to understand financial structures they were never asked to read. The questions are different. The standard of care is not.
If you are the partner of a physician, an executive, or a business owner, and you are reading this at 11 p.m. from another room of your house, the firm understands what brought you here. The financial asymmetry common in high-earning households is real, it is correctable, and it requires counsel involved early enough to matter.
If you are the earning spouse — the physician, the executive, the founder — the firm understands what you are trying to protect, and the kind of representation that protects it without inviting unnecessary conflict. A litigated high-asset divorce damages careers and reputations. We work to settle on terms that hold up, and we are prepared to litigate well when settlement is not possible.
You do not need to have your questions organized before you call. You need to have someone who recognizes the questions you have not thought to ask yet.
We represent clients across the highest-asset zip codes in southeast Michigan and litigate, when necessary, in Oakland County's 6th Circuit Court.
Our primary practice geography and the home of our office at 838 W. Long Lake Road. We have represented clients on Turtle Lake, Tiverton, Vaughan, and the surrounding estates for divorces involving medical practices, executive compensation, and multi-entity real estate holdings.
By appointment. In-person, phone, and video consultations available.
Closely tied to Bloomfield Hills demographically and legally — the same court, similar asset profiles, occasional jurisdictional questions when residence is contested.
A different demographic mix from Bloomfield Hills, with a higher concentration of younger high-earning households and equity-compensated executives. The asset structures look different; the legal framework is the same.
Smaller, older estates and family-business succession issues that often surface during divorce proceedings.
When clients in adjacent communities — Beverly Hills, West Bloomfield, Rochester Hills, Troy — call with high-asset matters, we represent them in the same court system under the same body of law.
This firm does not handle every kind of family law matter. It handles the matters where the financial complexity is the point. That focus is the reason we know where opposing counsel will look for valuation arguments, what the standard tactics look like, and how a Michigan court has handled similar facts in the past.
Oakland County's 6th Circuit Court files are public. So are most of the temporary orders, the financial disclosures attached to motions, and the names of the parties. For clients whose professional standing is part of the marital estate, the path of least exposure is private mediation, private arbitration, and settlement negotiations conducted away from the public record. We pursue that path first when the facts allow.
A divorce that settles costs less, finishes sooner, and exposes less. We prepare every case as if it will be tried — financial documentation, expert engagement, valuation reports, the full evidentiary record — because that is what gives a client leverage at the settlement table. We litigate when settlement fails, and we litigate well. But we do not manufacture conflict to inflate a file.
We represent earning and non-earning spouses with the same rigor. The work changes — defending a business valuation looks different from challenging one — but the standard does not. What the firm offers is financial honesty either way: a settlement built on documented numbers, not on whoever was loudest in the room.
High-net-worth clients want to know their attorney isn't working alone. Every complex case is supported by a team of Michigan's most respected financial specialists — people who produce findings that hold up under aggressive cross-examination.
The difference between a good settlement and a great one is almost always in the numbers. Our expert network is the reason the numbers are never wrong.
Trace hidden income, undisclosed accounts, and deliberate asset transfers before discovery closes.
Model long-term settlement outcomes, tax implications, and liquidity projections for complex estates.
Formal valuations for medical practices, dental offices, professional firms, and closely-held companies.
High-value estate appraisals for Turtle Lake, Tiverton, Franklin, and Bloomfield Hills properties.
Most clients call this firm with one specific concern and a long list of background questions they have not yet asked anyone. The intake process is designed for that.
A 60-minute conversation, by phone or in person at our Bloomfield Hills office. We listen first. We answer the questions you came in with, and we identify the questions you should be asking that you have not raised yet. There is no fee for this conversation, and it does not create an attorney–client relationship.
If you decide to engage the firm, the first substantive work is financial. We map the marital estate as it appears on paper, identify what is missing, and determine what additional professionals — business appraiser, forensic accountant, tax counsel — the case will require.
With the financial picture documented, we build the case strategy and execute it. Every case has a target outcome at the settlement table and a backup posture if settlement fails.
The questions to ask before you talk to anyone. The mistakes that cost spouses millions. The Michigan-specific framework most attorneys never explain.
Written for the spouse who is not yet ready to schedule a consultation but wants to understand what this process actually involves before making a decision. No email gate. No follow-up calls. Just the document.
Read the PlaybookThis is a small team by design. The attorney you speak with at the consultation is the attorney who handles your case.
Lead Family Law Attorney
Theresa is the attorney who will lead your case. She has practiced family law in Oakland County for over thirty years and concentrates on the financial side of family law — business valuation disputes, executive compensation division, asset tracing, and private mediation. Her work is the foundation of the firm's high-asset practice.
Principal Attorney & Owner
Fahd founded Haque Legal and serves as principal attorney and trial counsel. He provides courtroom representation when a case proceeds to litigation and oversees the firm's trial preparation across all matters.
Reviewed by Theresa Rizer, April 2026
Most clients call this firm earlier than they think they should. That is usually the right call. The earlier we are involved, the more options remain open — particularly around the financial documentation that will determine the eventual outcome.