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Cryptocurrency and Dissipation: One Spouse's Huge Loss May be the Other Spouse's Huge Gain

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Live Webcast
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM

With crypto markets now crashing and investors losing over $3 billion in cryptocurrency due to hacks in 2022, many digital asset investors have suffered enormous losses.  Privacy is a key aspect of most digital assets and men are 4 times more likely than women to have a secret crypto account of which their partner is unaware.  What if one spouse has lost substantial marital funds through digital asset investments without the knowledge or consent of the other spouse?  How will those often-staggering losses be handled in dissolution of marriage cases?  In this presentation, family law attorney Tanya Witt discusses the legal considerations when bringing or defending a dissipation claim resulting from the often-staggering losses that can occur when one spouse invested in digital assets.

Tanya Witt, The Witt Law Firm, Chicago

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  • Tanya Witt

    The Witt Law Firm, Chicago

    Tanya Witt is an experienced attorney and litigator who focuses exclusively on family law cases in Chicago. She regularly represents business owners in family law litigation and has represented a retired NFL player, provided strategic consulting on a multi‐billion dollar divorce, and successfully represented numerous other high net worth individuals. Her cases have involved parties or assets in Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Peru, and Scotland. Ms. Witt filed the first contested same‐sex dissolution of civil union case in DuPage County, Illinois. Tanya Witt is also a certified mediator and trained in collaborative law.

    Ms. Witt earned her law degree from the prestigious Harvard Law School in 1994. A double Ivy League graduate, she attained her undergraduate degree magna cum laude (“with great honor”) from the University of Pennsylvania. Tanya Witt is admitted to practice law in both Illinois and North Carolina.

    Ms. Witt is honored to have been appointed to the Family Law Section Council for the Illinois State Bar Association and to the ARDC Committee for the Illinois State Bar Association. She has instructed attorneys in continuing legal education courses. Ms. Witt also writes a column for Chicago Lawyer Magazine and is a former board member of the Harvard Law Society of Illinois. Prior to founding her own practice in 1998, Tanya Witt practiced law in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie, one of the world’s largest international law firms.

February 8, 2023
Wed 12:00 PM CST

Duration 1H 0M

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