Columbus Medical Professional Divorce Attorney

Columbus Medical Professional Divorce Attorney

Protecting What You Built as a Columbus Medical Professional Facing Divorce

Divorce introduces complex questions for medical professionals. With practice valuation, partnership agreements, nuanced compensation structures, and demanding schedules all in play, high-asset healthcare divorces require specialized focus. Your case needs a strategy built around the realities of your profession, not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Since 2001, Columbus family law attorney Gus Dahlberg has helped physicians, practice partners, and medical specialists handle divorce with discretion and precision. As one of a select group of OSBA Certified Family Relations Law Specialists and an AAML Fellow, he provides the experienced counsel needed to protect your practice and safeguard your future.

How We Handle Physician Divorce Cases in Columbus

Ohio law starts from a presumption that marital property is split equally, and the court can move away from an equal split only when equal division would be inequitable. A medical practice built during the marriage counts as marital property under Ohio Revised Code 3105.171, regardless of which spouse’s name is on it.

That means the court can look at what your practice interest, your partnership stake, and even your future earning potential are worth. A non-physician spouse can claim a share of value that took years to build.

We work with forensic accountants to value your practice correctly the first time, so you are not negotiating against an inflated number your spouse’s attorney invented.

We also handle the details unique to medical careers: locum tenens (temporary contract) income, deferred compensation, partnership buy-in agreements, and retirement accounts that do not look like a typical 401(k).

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Answers for Columbus Physicians Considering Divorce

Will my spouse get part of my medical license or future income?

No court can award someone your license. In Columbus, a spouse can claim a share of the value your practice or career gained during the marriage, and in some cases can seek support based on your income, but the license itself stays yours.

How is my medical practice valued in an Ohio divorce?

A forensic accountant reviews your practice’s income, patient base, equipment, and goodwill to reach a defensible number. We bring in that expertise early so the valuation holds up if the case goes in front of a judge.

Talk to a Columbus Medical Professional Divorce Attorney Today

You do not need to work out what your practice is worth, or what a fair outcome even looks like, on your own. Contact Babbitt & Dahlberg Law to schedule a confidential consultation and start building a plan that protects the career you worked so hard to build.