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Crypto Mining Business Classification and Child Support Pull in Opposite Directions
If you mine crypto, two different questions can pull in opposite directions: how the IRS classifies the activity, and how a child support calculation counts the income. The good news is that both are easier to handle when you know what each one looks at. Below I use IRS materials and Massachusetts’s guidelines, and the…
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Your Ex Already Got Half the Crypto in the Divorce — Can It Still Count as Income for Child Support?
Double dipping is the worry here. If crypto was divided in your divorce, can the same crypto also count as income for support? Family lawyers call this the “double dip.” The one source I could verify on the double dip describes the general rule by state, not crypto specifically, so I keep to it and…
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How Courts Average Irregular Income for Child Support, and What It Means for Crypto Gains
Courts often average irregular income to set child support, and crypto gains are irregular. Below I stick to documented approaches to irregular income and label the rest as my reasoning. The upside is that every approach I found rewards clear records, and records are something you can build today. Irregular income: Averaging in Tennessee: One…
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You Made $900K in Crypto Last Year — Does Your Child Support Go Up?
Crypto capital gains and child support meet at one question. Whether a big crypto gain raises child support depends on how your state’s guidelines define income. The title asks about a $900K year, and no source I found gives an answer for that figure, so I use it only as an assumed number. Below are…
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Your Crypto Doesn’t Have to Vanish — Or Get Taken by the State
For crypto inheritance, what decides whether your crypto reaches your heirs is less the choice between an exchange and self-custody and more whether you prepared. That is my opinion, and it’s good news, because preparation is something you control. Below is what I could verify about one state law, one uniform law on fiduciary access…
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Inherited Crypto No One Can Access: How the Estate Is Valued and What Executors Can Do
Estate tax is the focus of this guide. Inherited crypto that no one can access raises a hard question: can an estate be taxed on it? The IRS material cited here doesn’t address lost keys specifically. Below I give the sources I could confirm, including how estates are valued and the one IRS memo on…
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The $15,000 Question Nobody Asks in a Crypto Divorce: Which Lot Are You Actually Transferring?
Cost basis lot selection matters in a divorce because the same coin can be bought in several lots at different prices, so which lot is transferred changes the basis the other spouse receives. This article reports the IRS rules I could verify, then gives my own reasoning with assumed numbers. I’m not a lawyer or…
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Collar, Phased Transfer, Escrow — The Actual Mechanics of a Crypto-Proof Settlement
Escrow and collar clauses are drafting ideas for the gap between signing a divorce settlement and completing a crypto transfer. I’m not a lawyer, and this article is my own reasoning with assumed numbers, not a description of what courts accept. A family law attorney is the person to draft real language. The Collar: Turning…
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The Crypto Valuation Date Fight Nobody Explains Clearly
The crypto valuation date decides the price in a divorce: when a divorce involves crypto, the price you use depends on the date you pick, and the date changes who pays whom. The arithmetic below uses assumed numbers. The encouraging part is that the date is a variable you can compute, discuss and put in…
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Your Divorce Judgment Says Split the Crypto. Here’s Why That Might Not Happen.
Enforcing a crypto divorce judgment is a different problem from winning one. This article is my own reasoning about practical gaps between a ruling and what actually happens, plus a few sourced facts. I’m not a lawyer, and the rules vary by jurisdiction. The Judgment Doesn’t Move the Coins, a Person Does In my understanding,…